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The  Amerloan 
Ecclesiastical 

AlamanRG,  for  ministers 

and   laymen. 

1868. 


BR  513  .S33  1868 
Schem,  A.  J.  1826-1881. 
The  American  ecclesiastical 
and  educational  almanac 


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ECCLESIASTICAL^  ^ 


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FOR  MINISTERS  AND  LAYMEN 


Prof.  ALEXANDER  J    SCHE: 

P  K  I  C  E^jO    C  E  N  T  S^ 

COXsTTElSrXS. 


ASTRONOMICAL   I>liPAH1MKM-: 

Calendar,  Kclii>»es,  &c. 

HlSTOBlCAI,   DePAKTMEM: 

The  </'hiistian  Church  in  18fi7     . 

The  Kviingelical  Alliance     .... 

The  Pail  Aiiirlican  Synod 

Bible  Societies  .  .  . 

Young  Men's  Christian  Asaociations  . 

The  Koman  Ciitholic  Council  .  . 

Union  Movements  in  the  Christian  Worl.i 

Religious  Societies    ..... 

The  Presbyterian  National  Tnidrj  Convention 

Temperance.      ...... 

N,  V.  Sabbath  Committee 

Sunday  Schools  ..... 

Centenary  of -American  Meth'idigtn 

Church  and  State. — Frngr«ss  of  ReliKious  Liberty 

The  Church  ,the  slavery  Question  and  the  b'reedmen 

The  Churches  and  Secret  ;rocietie.s 

V'oreign  Missions  .  .  .  . 

LiTERART  Department. 
♦      Books  on  Religious.  Ecclesiastical  and  Moral  Sulij'jcts.  published 

'  DSKOMINATIONAL  RECORD. 

Interesting  Events  and  Incidents  in  the  Religious  History  of  ISijr 
Statistical  Department  : 

The  Creeds  of  the  World        .  .  .  .  .  . 

Ecclesiastical  Statistics  of  America,  Europe,  Asia.  .Africa  and  Australi; 

Denominational  Statistics,  giving  a  full  Statistical   Account  of  the  principal  Religious  De- 
nominations     .......... 

Alphabbtioal  Index  ........... 


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NEW  YORK,        pS5ifiS252SJSJS^5S2S^  FREDK.  GERHARD,  a- 

18  68. 


15  DEY  STREET, 


(POST  BOX  4001.) 


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THK 

GREAT  AMIMtAi\  TEA  COMPANY. 

Established  1861. 

THE  inil^lEi^SE  PROFlTJii  OF  THE  TEA  TRADE 

CiREATEY  REDUCED. 

THE  PROPRIETORS  OF  THE  GREAT  AMERICAN  TEA  COMPANY  l.fiamc  fully  convince.l 
several  years  ago,  that  consumers  of  Tea  and  Coffee  were  paying  too  many  ami  too  larjie  prDflts  on 
these  articles  of  every-day  consumption,  anil  therefore  organized  THE  GREAT  AMERICAN  TK.* 
COMPANY,  to  do  away,  as  far  as  possible,  with  the.se  enormous  drains  upon  the  consumers,  mid 
to  supply  them  with  these  necessaries  at  the  smallest  possible  price. 

lo  give  our  readers  an  idea  of  the  jirofits  which  have  been  made  in  the  Tea  Trade,  we  will 
start  with  the  American  houses,  leaving  out  of  the  account  entirely  the  profits  of  the  Chinese 
factors.  First,  the  American  House  in  China  or  Japan  makes  large  profits  on  their  sales  or  ship- 
ments, and  Fome  of  the  richest  retired  merchants  in  this  country  have  made  their  immense  fortunes 
throuph  their  Houses  in  China.  Second,  the  Hanker  makes  large  profits  upon  the  foreign  exchange 
used  in  the  purchase  of  tea.  Third,  the  Importer  makes  a  prolit  of  30  tu  &0  per  cent,  in  many  cases. 
fourth,  on  its  arrival  here  it  is  sold  by  the  cargo,  and  the  Purchaser  sells  it  to  t.'ie  Speculator  in 
invoices  of  1000  to  2000  pHckageg,  at  an  average  profit  of  about  JO  per  cent.  Fi/th,  the  Speculator 
sells  it  to  the  Wholesale  Tea  Dealer  in  lines,  at  a  profit  of  10  to  1.5  per  cent.  Sixth,  the  Wholesale 
Tea  Dealer  sells  ii  to  ^he  Wholesale  Grocer,  in  lots  to  suite  his  trade,  at  a  profit  of  about  10  per 
cent.  3tventli,  the  Wholesale  Grocer  fells  it  to  the  Retail  Dealer,  at  a  profit  of  15  to  25  per  cent. 
litfflith,iY\e.  Retailer  sells  it  to  the  Consumer  for  ALL  THE  PUOKIT  HE  CAN  GET.  When  you 
have  added  to  tlie.se  EIGHT  jirofits  as  many  brokerages,  cartages,  storages,  cooperages,  and  waste, 
and  add  the  original  cost  of  the  tea,  it  will  be  perceived  what  the  consumer  has  to  pay.  ^n  I  now 
we  propose  to  show  why  we  can  sell  so  very  much  lower  than  other  dealers.  We  prcpo^e  lo  do 
away  with  all  these  various  jirofitsand  brokerages,  cartageB,  storages,  cooperages,  and  waste,  with 
Ihe  exception  of  a  small  commission  paid  for  purchasing,  to  our  correspondunts  in  China  and  Jajian. 
one  cartage,  and  a  small  profit  to  ourselves,  which  on  our  large  sales,  will  amply  pay  us.  Through 
our  system  of  supplying  Clubs  throughout,  tlie  counuy,  consumers  in  al;  parts  of  tlie  United  States 
can  receive  their  teas  at  the  same  price  (with  the  small  additional  expense  of  transportation)  as i 
though  they  bougJit  them  at  our  warehouses  in  this  city.  Parties  getting  their  Teas  from  us  may 
confidently  rely  upon  getting  them  ]iure  and  frci^li,  as  they  come  direct  from  the  Custom  Housi- 
stores  to  our  warehouses.  We  warrant  all  the  goods  we  sell  lo  give  entire  satisfaction.  If  they 
are  not  satisfactory  they  can  be  returned  at  our  expeii.se  within  30  days,  and  have  the  money 
refundeil. 

P.  S.  All  villages  and  towns  where  a  large  number  reside,  by  c/Kfcfci/i^  together,  can  reduce 
the  cost  ofthcir  Teas  and  Coffees  about  one  third  by  sending  directly  to  the 

GREAT  AMERICAN  TEA  COMPANY, 

31  and  S3  Vtsey-streit.     Post-office  box  5643  New  York  City. 
The  Company   has  selected   the  following   kinds  from  their  stock,  which  they  recommend  to 
meet  the  wants  of  Clubs.       They  are  sold  at  Cargo-Prices,  the  same  as  the  Company  sell  them  in 
New  York,  as  the  list  of  jirices  will  show. 

OO'LO'Sti,  ^Itliick)  tiO,  70,  80.  00,  Iirst  $L  per  lb. 


COFFEE  ROASTED  AND  GROUND  DAILY. 

GROUND  COFFEE,  20c.,  "JSc,  30c.,  Sic.bcst  40c.  i>er  lb.  Hi. Ids, Saloons,  Boardiug-HouseKeep- 
ers  and  Families  who  use  large  Quantities  of  Coffee  can  economize  in  that  article  by  using  our 
FRENCH  BREAKFAST  and  DINNER  COFFEE,  which  we  will  tell  at  the  low  price  of  30c.  per  lb., 
and  warranted  to  give  perfect  satisfaction. 

ROASTED  (UNGRUUND)  30c.,  35.,  best  40c.  per  lb. 

GREEN  (UNRAOSTED)  25c.,  30c..  3.1c.,  best  35c. per  Ih. 

Consumers  can  save  from  50c.  to  $1  per  )iound  by  purchasing  their  Teas  of  the 

GREAT  AMERICAN  TEA  COMPANY, 

No«.  31  AND  33  VESEY  STREET. 

Po6t-cifflc«  box^43.  New  York  Ci<y. 


THE  i^MERIO^N" 


ECCLESIASTICAL 


ALMANAC, 


FOR  MINISTERS  AND   LAYMEN, 


FOR 


1868. 


B7 


Pb0F.  ALEXANDER  J.  SCHEM. 


FREDK.  GERHARD.  Aet.,  U  Dey  St, 

POST  BO2:  4001. 


Oil  Febrnary  1st  18G8,  will  be  paLlished  a  splendid  EngraTiag  ol 

designed  and  engraved  by  H.  CLAUSSEN. 
Size,  24x30  Inches,      Price,  Two  Dollars. 


This  beautiful  en(»ravinff,  the  finest  work  of  the  kiud  ever  pnViIished,  ts  certain  to  becon>e  a 
favorite  with  Christiau  families,  and  ought  to  find  iis  way  into  every  Christian  home.  The  design 
is  appropriate,  executed  in  the  best  style  of  art,  and  harmonizes  in  the  most  striking  and  symbulical 
manner  with  the  spirit  of  the  divine  instruction. 


The  Rftentinn  of  ministers  is  JDvited  to  this  magnificent  work,  and  they  are  reqocsted.  ff  they 
see  fit,  to  introduce  it  to  the  notice  of  their  church-members. 

Ministers  and  other  Gentlemen,  desiring  to  act  as  agents,  will  be  allowed  a  very  liberal  discount, 
which  will  enable  them  to  sell  it  at  a  very  handsome  profit. 

Agents  wanted  in  every  City  and  County.  Canvassers  can  make  easily  from  10  to  20  Dollars 
a  day. 

Circulars  stating  the  terms  for  agents  &c.,  sent  on  application  to  the  Publisher.  Those,  wishing 
at  the  same  time  to  receive  a  sample-copy  will  please  enclose  Two  Dollars. 

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POST  OFFICE  BOX  4C0I. 


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81  DAYS. 


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ANNUITY    COMPANY, 

\0.   31    FJi\K  STREET,    .VtW     YOllK. 


ASSETS. 


.$700,000 


THEOnORK  R    WETMORK, 
WALTEK   M.   FIU.VKI.IN, 
J.  NEl,-ON'  TAHt'AN^ 
EOMfND  TU'US, 
eHARJ-ES  HEt.LflVVS. 
KEUBEN   II.   UNDF.RHILL, 
JUHM  T.   «-II,I,K   S, 
A.  B.  WETMtmE,. 
ROBERT  B.  flUrt'LAND. 


T)  I  R  E  C  T  aES: 

Er)\v.\RnnATfinT,  jame-?  m  drake, 

EDWARD  WOilK,  JAMES   BRETT. 

onARi.Es  L.  sw')Rn<».  Francis  I'AYSoy, 

JOHN'   F.  UNDKRIIJ!-!,,  AIJfiUSTUS  TaBFTK, 

ROUKRT  MNDl.EY  MURRAY.  .lOHN   \V.  GRWDO.V, 
FRANCIS   r.  WaI.KEK,  ROBERT  BOWNE. 

WIM.IAM  IIUI'.BAKO,  CHAtll-ES  T.   GOOPWIW, 

THOMAS  W.   BIRDSADL,  SIONKY  WlNTKlNGII  AM, 

JOSEPH  S.  KXAPl',  KElWAliD  MAICSHALU 

ROBERT  L.  CASE, 

I-AAC  W.  BUSHMORE,  BronUyn,  L.  I.  OI':i>RftE  INNTS,  PongTikeep^^ie,  N.  Y. 

NATH    B.  WEE3.  Darien,  Ct.  SANDFOKl)  A.  KNAPP,  t'ceUskill  N.  Y. 

WM.  HENRY  CHASE.  Uai  m  >-''prines.  V.  Y.  JAMES  lUfil.ER,  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 

WM.  H.  WJMJS,  N«H  HambuiL:!!,  .N'.  Y.  i»AVin  MOOKE  "  "■ 

ROBT.  L.  CASE.  Pres-    IHEO-  R.  WETMORE,  Vice  Pres.    ISAAC  H-  ALLEN.  Sacy. 
Wil'  HENRY  CHURCH    M   D    I  ^''''^''^'*'  Examiners,  at  the  Office  daily,  fiom  I  to  3  P.  M. 

" 1.^ ^^  BENH.  UNDERH ILU_CounseU 

NEW   A  M  S  T  E  U  D  A  M  F  I  11  E   INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

CAPITAL $300,000. 

OFFICE:  ISO.  173  HROADWAY.  COIi.  OF  CoRTLANDT  ST.  N.   Y. 
DIRECTORS. 


DAVID  S.  MANNERS 
A.  H.  WaLLIS. 
FRANCIS  MANY. 
JOHN  WESTFAI.L, 
WM.  F.  BEARNS, 
PETER  DURYER, 

jAinES  G-.  p  OWE  as, 

JOHN  WHEATON. 
WILLIAM  T.  HALL. 
NICHOLAS  D    HER[>ER. 
D.  R.  DOREMUS.SuRVFTOB. 


DAVID  S   MANNER-:,  PKilBIDtNT. 


ANDREW   IIOOGLANO, 
HERviaN  H.  BKU.VJE8, 
JAMES  S.  BKARNS. 
H.  H.  KATTEXHORN. 
E.  C.  KoRNER, 
FRANCIS  BOLTING, 
HENRY  J,  BEERS. 
HENRY  A.  BOoREAM, 

John  c.  kohlsaat, 

LEANDEB  DAKLINQ, 


CALEB  BARSTO\y, 
ABRAHAM  VOORHIS. 
MICHAEL  LIENAU, 
DAVID  JONES. 
LE'NDER  B.  SHAW. 
B.  H.  LAIMBEER, 
JNO.  G.  LINNEMANN, 
on©  LOESCHIGK. 
JAMES  R.  BOUCK, 
H.  ELY  lENBURGH. 
ISAAC  D.  CoLE  Jb.,  Secibtaw- 


ES33^V^.i^:E1.3>  ^-  ES^V.^^KT©  cS3  OO., 


KURSEBYMEN  AWE  SEEDSMEN. 


YORK,  PKNN.. 


51^1 


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Ornantcntafi  Sliritbs.  Rosrs,  IIed;;e  Plants, &c. 

tn  full  assortment ; 

EU  SEEiS, 

iu  great  Tariety, 
all  carefully  tested  before  smding  out,  and 

i;^ARRAI^TED  TO  C;R0W. 

The  fMTowing  Catalogues  are  issued,  and  mailed  to  any  address,  on  receipt  of  Rfaicp; 
1     Aruateur'i  Price  Lift  of  Fruit  and  ornamental  Trees,  Grap«-Viik«s,  Small  Fruits,  he. 
S.     Dtscriptive Strawberry  Catalogue,  with  SopplemeDt. 

3.  Wholfs.ale  Cataio^'ue  of  Fruit  aud  ornameutaJ  Trees,  &c. 

4.  Descriptive  Seed  Catalogue. 

5.  •'        Circular  of  New  Seeds. 

6.  "        Cai.nlv,'ue  <>f  BeddiBg  Plants,  ko. 


US. 


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FEBRUARY,  18G8. 


39  OAYS. 


tlOON'S    PHASES 


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OF  NEW  YORK:. 

144  and  146  Broadway, 

FREDEKICK  S.  WINSTON,  PREsioEnt. 


This  Comfant  offers  tbe  foTIowing  pecuTiai  advantagea  to  persona  intending  to  In 
siSre  their  live*: — 

Its  Assets  are  tarfffr  than  those  of  any  other  life  losurance  Company  ilk  the  Uni- 
ted States,  amonnting  to 

S2^, 000,000- 

and  are  exitusively  eusTt. 

Its  Kates  of  PaEMttrM  are  hicer  tlran  those  of  the  majority  of  other  Life  Ingirrance 
Corapnnies — yet  its  Dividends  have  been  ^rea/fr;  the  result  of  a  very  low  rate  of, 
mortality  among  the  insured,  consequettt  oa-a  most  careful  and  judicious  selection 
of  lives. 

The  Mo^TAtiTY  among  its  MeMbehs  baff  heen  pTOportionsHy  less  than  that  of  any 
other  Life  Insurai\ce  Company  in  either  America  or  Europe  whose  expevienee  has 
been  made  known— a,  result  in  th«  highest  degree  fa'vorable  to  Policy-holders. 

Its-  Dividends  are  made  annually,  and  may  he  used  either  to  increase  the  amount 
insured,  or  to  decrease  the  premium. 

Evert  Policy  ha* a  dividend,  vrhich  mny  he  soused  art  the  end  of  the  ftret  and 
every  subsequent  year  that  he  remains  insured. 

The  Assets  of  the  Company  are  invested  exclusively  on  Bond  and  3Iortgapre  on 
Real  Estate  in  the  City  and  State  of  i^ew  TTork,  worth  in  each  case  at  least  douhk 
the  amount  loaned,  and  bearing  interest  at  seven  per  cent:  the  solidity  and  security 
of  this  disposition  of  the  Company^  a  funds  cannot  be  over-rated'. 


jVbfe. — The  business  of  this  Corrrpany  is  conducted  on  the  Mltuat.  principle  ia  the 
strictest  sense  of  the  term;  the  entire  surplus,  diduclinff  necessary  expenses  akme,  being 
equitably  divided  among  the  assured. 


ErcitARD  A.  McCtfimY,  Vice-Presi^kr^. 
SiiEPPARD  HoMANS,  Actuary. 

WlLMAW  BETT-f,  LL.D.,      V 

Hon.  Lucius  Uobinson,   J-  Coimad. 

MiNTUR«  I'o^.  M.D..  )  Medicd  Emminm. 
ISAAC  L.  Kip,  M.D.,  j 


8d  MONTH. 


MARCH,  1868, 


Si  DAYS. 


MOOiN'S  PHASES 


First  Quarter 

Full  Moon  

Third  Quarter. 
New  Moon  . .  . . 
First   Quarter 


BOSTON, 


5  mo. 
38  ev. 
45  er. 
15  mo, 
41   m'. 


i^EW  YORK, 


53  er. 
26  ev. 
33  ev. 
3  mo 
29  mo. 


M. 

41  ev 
14  ev, 
21  ev. 
51  mo. 
17  mo 


CHARLES'N. 


M 
29  ev. 

2  er. 

9ev. 
39  mo. 

5  mo. 


!^unon  Mcrid. 


H.  M.  S 

12  12  25 

12  10  32 

12  8  18 

12  5  63 


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203,  399,  5H  &  756  BROADWAY, 

AND  FOURTH  AVENUE,  cor.  of  17tli  St. 


ifiTICL[S, 


Ileiicinan  &  Co.'s  Benzine, 

For  the  insf.int  removal  of  Paints,  Grease  Spots,  etc. 

ZSegeiiiaiii  &  Co/s  Camphor  Ice,  with  Glycerine, 

A  certain  cure  lor  Cliapped  Hands,  Sunburn   Sore  I-ips,  Chilblains,  etc. 

IIegeni:«n  A  Co.'s  Genuine  Cod  Liver  Oil, 

Warranted  pure,  and  prepared  from  the  Iresli  Livers,  without  bleacliing  or  any  chemical  prepa- 
ration. This  article  has  stood  the  test  of  filteen  years'  experieDce,  with  increasing  rcputatiuu,  for 
Consump'iop,  Scrofula,  etc. 

IletieKsan  &  Co.'.t  Cordial  Elixir  of  Calisaya  BarEi., 

Prepared  from  the  Calisaya  (or  King's)  Rark,  being  the  heft  variety  of  Peruvian  Barli.  It  Is  an 
;i_'retal>le  cordial  to  the  taste,  and  posse.-sing  the  valuable  tonic  prnpeilies  of  the  bai  k — an  excel- 
lent preventive  to  Fevers,  Fever  and  Ague,  etc  ,  for  residents  in  lualaiious  diftricts. 

EIt|;:ciuan  &  Ci»/s  Velpt  auN  Di>irrliea  Remedy  and  Cliol*-ra 

Preventive. 

Uged  with  unfailing  imccess  durinsj  and  since  the  cholera  of  1845,  A  single  dose  will  asually 
check  or  cure  the  Diarrliea.     No  family  should  be  without  it. 

Megcnian^s  Ferreted  Elixir  of  Bark,  the  Most  perfect  Iron 

Tonic  in  Use. 

This  Elixir  is  composed  of  the  active  principles  of  Calisaya  Bark,  combined  wtth  PyrophospUate 
of  Iron,  and  in  nil  cases  where  an  efficient  Iron  Tonic  is  required  will  piore  veiy  valuabie. 

Ili'g^enian'^  Odonto  or  Pearl  Dentifrice. 

A  most  agreeable  and  economical  Powder  for  cleaning  and  preserving  the  teeth. 

liegeman  &  Co*s  Bronchial  Pastilles. 

They  allay  irritation  of  the  mucous  mi.rabrane,  cure  Catarrh,  Cough,  and  incipient  Bronchitis. 
I'articulaily  valuable  for  Clerg.vmen  and  Public  Speakers,  as  they  keep  the  throat  moist,  etc. 

THE  AliOVE  PREPARATIONS  ARE  SOLD  BY  DRL'GGISTS  fiENERALLl, 

In  the  United  States  and  Canadaa. 


4th  9f  ONTU. 


APRIL,  1868. 


80  DAYS. 


MOON'S  PHAGES 


Full  Moon 

Third  Quarter. 

Mew  Moon 

First  Quarter.. 


BOSTON. 


H  M 

2  23  mo. 
5  51  ev. 

3  36  ev. 
I  34  ev 


NEW  YORK 


M. 
21  mo. 


H 
2 
5 

3     24  ev. 
1     22  ev. 


WASB'TON. 


M 

9  mo. 
27  ev. 
12  ev. 
10  ev 


CHARLES'N 


Sun   on    nici'id. 
or   noon    mark. 


M. 

57  mo. 
15  ev. 
0  ev. 


0  58  ev. 


H.  M.  S. 

12  3  45 

12  1  ^5 

II  59  V3 

II  57  47 


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AND 

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FIRST  PRIZE  MEDAL  A  WARDED  IN  EUROPE  AND  AMERICA. 

■Warranted  to  w.ish  perfectly  without  soaking,  rubbinE  or  boiling  and  without  injury  to  the 
most  tender  fabric.  Soap,  labor  and  health  saved.  No  drudgery,  no  steam,  no  Blops.  The  Union 
Wringer  will  fit  any  kind  of  tul)  and  is  the  best  and  most  durable  in  use.  ClerRvmen  ot  all 
denoiiiinations,  I'liysicians  and  Philantrophists  have  written  in  the  most  glowins;  terms  of  the 
merit-i  of  these  machines.  Ladies  who  have  them,  say.  they  would  not  be  without  thtm  for  buodrcus 
of  dollars. 

We  keep  on  hand  the  largest  assortment  in  the  United  States  of'mangles  for  ironing  all  kinds 
"'  plain  clothes  without  heat.     Suitable  for  hotels,  laundries  and  families. 

The  Washer  Womans  Friend ! 

No  Further  Use  for  a  Wash  Board ! 

Hand  Rubbing  and  Back  Breaking  Abolished 


■PRICE,  (without  wringer)  ONLY  §10. 
It  Is  so  simple  in  construction   and  so  easily  operated  that  a  meie  child  can  understand  and 
work  it.     SERVAST  GIRLS  adopt  it   at  once,  and  are  quite  willing  tu  throw  aside  their  wash 
board  iu  favor  of  it. 

Every  Family  can  afford  to  set  one. 

IT  WILL  WASH  CLOTHES  PERFECTLY. 

WITHOUT  ANY  HAND  RUBBING   WHATEVER, 

Saving  Three-Fourths  in  Time,  Labor  and  Soap. 
Excepting  the  celebrated 

It  is  the  Best,  Simplest  and  Cfieapcst  Washer  7iow  before  (he  PMic. 
Can  bo  Attached  to  it. 

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2.*?  CORTLANDT  ST..  NEW  YORK 
AUD  102  SUMMER  ST.,  BOSTON. 

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MAY,  1868. 


SI  D1V8. 


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l-'lrst  Quarter  . . . , 


M. 

53  ev. 
31  er, 
52  mo. 
58  ev. 


5fEW  TORK, 


4.  M. 

1  41  er. 

0  19  ev. 

1  40  mo. 

fi  46  ev 


WASH'TOX 


H      M. 

1  29  ev 

0  7  ev. 

1  28  mo. 
fi  34  ev 


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M 

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55  mo. 
16  mo. 
22  ev. 


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ExpositiQ>Bi  Uaifofselk,  Pads,  186?. 

Awarded  over  Eighty-two  Competitors,  the  Hieheat  Premium, 


FOR  THE  PERFECTION  OF 

SEWL\G  }mmu  m  nmMm  Miraiis, 

The  only  GOLD  MEDAL  for  this  Branch  of  Manufacture. 
Paris  Fxposition. — Sewing:  ]TInc]iiiie  Awards. 

There  was  recently  published  a  brief  telegram  from  Paris,  announcing  the  award,  over  elphty- 
two  competitors,  tu  Messrs.  Wheeler  &  Wilson,  of  ti.e  Highest  Premium,  a  Gold  Medal  for  tin;  per- 
fectioB  of  P«wing  Machines  and  Button-Hole  Machines.  The  following  are  copies  of  the  oCicfal 
documeuts  confirming  the  announcement: 

Exposition  Universelle,  Paris.  1867,  ) 

Commission  Imperiale,  Champ-db-mars,  Ju  y   16,  1S67.  j 
Mr.  R.  HuNiiNO,  No.  139  Regent  Street,  London  : 

Dear  Sir  —Replying  to  your  inquiry,  I  beg  to  slate  that  the  only  Gold  Medal  for  the  manufac- 
ture and  Perfectdn  of  Dewing  Maouines  and  Buiton-Holk  Machines  was  awa:ded  to  Messrs. 
WuEELBft  &  Wilson,  of  New-York. 

Yours  respectfuHy, 

HENRY  F.  Q.  D'AUGNY, 
Member  of  Internal  tonal  Jury  and  Reporter  of  same, 
Another  letter  of  the  same  date  says  : 

Pear  Bill, —Replvins  to  your  inquiry.  I  herewith  give  you  the  list  of  Rold-Mt'dals  awarded  to 
my  class  :  Dupuis  et  Dumkrt,  for  Screw  Shoe  Machines  ;  Wueelfr  &  Wilson,  New  York,  for  the 
manuficture  and  perfection  of  their  Sewing  Machines  and  Butionll  le  Machines.  There  is,  aNo, 
in  1  he  list  of  ■•Co-operators,"  a  Gold-Medal  granted  to  Mr.  Elias  lIowB,  Ja.,  personally,  as  Pro'- 
MOTsaof  the  Sewing  Machine. 

Respectfully  yours, 

HENRY  F.  Q.  D'APIGNY, 
Reporter  ofClatt  No.  57,  (drnnp  No.  6. )  Me/r^ber  of  Inltrnational  Jury 
at  the  Exposition  Vmverselle, 

Extract  rrom  L«  Monitkur  Univbrsbl,  official  Journal  of  the  French  Empire : 
"The  Wheeler  k  AVilson  Company,  of  New  York,  manufacturers  of  American  Sewing  Machines 
have  jtist  received  the  GoLO  Medal  at  the  Exposition  Universelle,  for  the  good  construciion  of 
their  Maehine-.  ;  the  new  imi>rovement  for  making  Button  IIole^,  apiilicahli  to  their  Sowing  Ma- 
chines ;  also,  for  their  Maclline  especially  for  makiTg  Button  IIol?s.  Ihis  award  is  accoiiled  for 
tlie  great  ilevolopment  that  Messrs,  Wueeler  &  Wilson  have  given  to  the  Sewing  Maehhie  Induslry, 
iu  bringing  their  Miicliine  to  the  doors  of  all,  by  their  cheapness  and  solid  construction,  which 
allows  theiT  employment  with  satisfaction  in  families,  and  with  great  adrantage  in  workrooms." 


tthMONTU. 


JUNE,  1868. 


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Full  Moon 

Tliird  Quarter. 
N'ew  Moon  .. . . 
First  Quarter. . 


BUS  I  UN, 


M 

11  mo. 

29  mo. 

1  mo. 

fi  mo. 


NEW  YORK 


WASH'TUN. 


M. 

H. 

M 

59  mo. 

1 

47  mo 

17  mo. 

5 

5  mo. 

49  mo. 

9 

37  mo 

54  mn 

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35  mo. 
53  rao 
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TESTIMONIALS. 

Th«f  Horace  Waters  Pianos  are  known  as  amon;?  tho  vei-v  best. — N,  Y.  Evans^flist. 

Wh  ean  speak  of  the  merits  of  the  Horace  Waters  Pianos  from  personal  knowledge  as  lieing  of 
the  very  bejt  quality.  —  Christian  Iiitflligeticer. 

The  Horace  Waters  Pianos  are  built  of  the  best  and  most  thoroughly  seasoned  material — 
Advocate  and  Journal. 

Waters'  Pianos  and  Melodeons  challenge  comparison  with  the  finest  made  anywhere  in  the 
country. — Home   Inurnal. 

Out  friends  will  fimi  at  Mr.  Waters'  store  the  very  best  assortment  of  Music  and  Pianos  to  be 
found  in  the  United  States. — Grahams  Magazine, 

Manufactory  and  Warerooms, 

HORACE  WATERS  &  CO. 


7th  MONTH. 


JULY,  1868. 


Si  DAYS. 


UOON'S  PUASES* 


Pull  Moon  .... 
Third  Quarter. 
New  Moon  . . . . 
First  Quarter  . 


BOSTON. 


M. 

55  ev. 

56  ev. 
12  er. 

7  mo. 


NEW  YORK 


3.  M. 

3  43  ev. 

7  44  ev. 

5  Oev. 

S  55  mo 


WASH'l'ON. 


H  M. 

3  31  ev. 

7  32  ev. 

4  48  ev. 

8  43  mo. 


CHARLES' 

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PRINCIPAL  OFFICE, 

516  Broad'way,  Nevr  "York, 

AGENCIES  in  ALL  the  PR  NCIPAL  TOWNS  of  the  Union. 


The  EMPIRE  SHUTTLE  MACHINE,  patented  February  I4,  1860,  is  constructed 
on  a  new  principle  of  mechanism,  possessing  many  lare  and  valuable  improvements 
and  having  been  examined  by  the  most  profound  experts,  has  been  pronounced 
to  be 

SIMPLICITY  AND  PERFECTION  COMBINED. 

The  EMPIRE  SEWING  MACHINE  has  a  Straight  Needle,  Feiymdinilar  Action. 
makes  the  Lock  or  Shuttle  Stiich,  which  will  neither  rip  or  lavel,  and  is  alike 
on  both  sides  ;  performs  perfect  sewing  on  every  desciiption  of  material,  fiom 
leather  to  the  tinest  Nansook  muslin,  with  cotton,  linen  or  silk  thread,  fix  rathe 
coarsest  to  the  finest  number.  ^E&~  It  Hems,  Fells,  Binds,  Braids,  Tucks,  Quilts, 
Plaits  and  Gathers. 

Having  neither  cam  or  cog  u-heel,a,nd  the  least  possible  friction,  it  runs  as  smooth 
as  glass,  and  is 

EMPHATICALLY  A  NOISELESS  MACHINE. 

We  make  three  sizes  of  all  degrees  ot  finish.  The  No.  1,  or  Family  Jlachine, 
can  be  had  with  either  Iron  or  Walnut  Table,  halt  cabinet,  folding  top,  or  full 
cabinet  enclosed,  and  is  alike  a  handsi  me,  useful  piece  of  furniture. 

Tlie  No.-  2,  for  small  manufacturing  purposes,  aie  all  fitted  up  alike  with  large 
extension  table  of  walnut  and  drawer  This  JIachine  for  tailoiing  work,  heavy 
cloth,  liglit  leaiher,  or  family  sewing,  has  no  s-uperior. 

Our  No.  8,  New  Leather  and  Coach  Trimming  Machine,  is  the  same  as  our 
No.  3,  (loth  Manulacturing  Machine,  whicli  can  be  adapted  to  the  Heaviest  or 
Kinest  Leather  Work,  bv  removing  the  flat  foot  and  substituting  the  roller  fdot  in 
its  place.  This  is  especially  desirable  in  Seuing  I'atcnl  Leather,  and  is  highly  lecom- 
nieiided  to 

SHOEMAKERS,  LEATHER  FITTERS,  HARNESS  MAKERS,  >. 

AGENTS  WAN'l-ED.     APPLY  FOR  TERMS  TO  THE  COMPANY. 


StU  MONTH. 


AUGUST,     1868. 


81  DATS. 


MOON'S    PHASES, 


Full  Moon  . . . . 
Third  Quarter 
New  Moon  . .  . 
First  Quarter  . . 


BOSTO>J. 


W. 

8  mo, 
44  mo. 
27  mo. 

3  ev. 


NEW  YORK. 


H.  M. 

a  51  mo. 

7  32  mo. 

U  13  mo. 

7  51  ev. 


WATH'TON. 


M. 

44  mo. 

•M  mo. 

3  mo. 

39  ev. 


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H. 

M 

6 

32 

mo. 

7 

8 

mo. 

11 

51 

ev. 

7 

27 

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Use  Renne's  Pain  Killing 
Magic  Oil. 

To  my  patrons  respectfully. 

I  am  introducing  Ibis  remedy  for  Pain,  all  over 
the  Cuiintry,  as  fast  as  I  can.  If  it  is  not  kept 
by  the  Druggist,  or  merchant,  with  whom  you 
usually  trade,  they  will  send  fur  the  different 
sizes  at  your  request,  and  sell  at  the  manufactur- 
ers lowest  price.  \ 

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sized  bottles,  and  called  'trial  size" — "medidm 
size" — and  "large  size  " — It  is  not  left  for  sale 
on  Commission,  but  sold  at  uniform  rates  for 
cash. — Its  use  cures  pain  as  water  quenches  fire. — 
It  is  safe,  clean,  and  delicious  to  use.  either  ex- 
ternally or  internally ;  and  Physicians  of  all 
schools  f>f  practice  say,  it  is  the  best,  and  safest 
remedy  ttiey  have  ever  found  used  by  families 
where  they  practice. — Try  Renne's  Magic  Oil, 
leader  I — Keep  it  in  your  house  to  use  in  case  of 
sudden  sickness,  or  accident,  for  Burns,  Bruises, 
Sprains,  Cholic,  Fits,  Cramps.  Neuralgia,  Rheu- 
matism, Headache,  Stings,  Wounds,  sore  Eyes, 
fic.  In  tlie  worst  cases,  after  other  remedies  fail, 
we  love  to  see  Renne's  Magic  Oil  used  thorough- 
ly "It  works  like  a  charm."  Orders  should  be 
addressed  to 

Wm.  Ilenne>  Proprietor. 
Pittsfield,  Mass. 

Also  sold  by  all  wholesale  Druggists. 


LIFE    AND    FIRE    INSURANCE 
JFLQ'y  ATi  I3?JS.  GO. 

OF 

L.IVERP001.  AND  LONDON. 

Office  56  Wall  Street. 

Authorized  Capital  £'',000  000  Sterling, 

or  $10,000000 

Paid  up  Capital  and  Surplus  $4,535,000. 

$1,000  invested  in  U.  S.  Stocks,  held  by  the  Su- 
perintendent of  the  Insurance  Depart- 
ment on  account  of  the  Life  Branch. 

$21^,000    do.  do.  on  account  of  (he  Kire  Branch. 

$ai9,000  invested  in  U.  -S.  stocks  held  by  ihe  Xew 
York  Trustees  and  Committee  of  Mana- 
gement to  meet  losses. 

$585.0110  invested  in  New  York. 

Losses  adjusted  in  New  York  and  promptly 

paid. 

IN  AnniTION  TO  ITS  FIRE  BUSINESS  THIS 
COMPANY  IS  PREPARKD  TO  TRAN'SACT 

IN  ALL  ITS  BRANCHES. 

NEW  YORK  TRDSTEE8  : 

ADAMNORRIE,  RICH.  IRVIN,  ABIEL  A.  LOW 

COMMITSEE  OF  ARRANGEMENTS. 

WM.  C.  PICKEKSGILL    ROYAL  PHELPS. 


ADAM  NOKRIE, 
BENJ.  R.  SHKRMA^I, 
HENRY  L.  ROUTH, 
HENRY  EYRE, 

GEORGE  MOliE 

EDMUND  HURRY,  Surveyor. 

A.  B.  McDONALD,  Agent. 


THOS.  RICHARDSON. 
W.  BUTLER  DUNCAN 
FRANCIS  SKIDDY, 
HENRY  A.  SMYTH  E, 


GERMANIA 

No-  175  Broadway,  NEW  YORK. 

CASH  CAPITAL $500,000  00 

SURPLUS $312,180  56 

Total  Assets,  July  1, 1867 $812,180  56 

This  company  insures  Property  of  all  kinds  against  LOSS  OR  DAMAGE  BY  FIRE, 
on  favorable  terms. 

Hugo  Scliuuianu,       John  £.  Kahl,      Rudolph  Oarrigue, 

Secretary.  Vice  Presdent,  President. 

Principal  Agencies  ;     No.  357  Bowery  and  518  8th  Avenue. 
F.  MALIGNON. 
"  No.  32  Union  Ave.,  between  Montrose  Ave.  and  Meserole  Str.,  Williamsburgh, 

e.  KEHR. 
Agency  in  Jersey  City  :     No.  27  Montgonnery  St. 

BUDENBENDER  *  MOLLER, 
"  Hudson  City  :  Franklin  St..  Washington  Village, 

JOHN  PKl'ER  VOLLHARDT. 
"         Union  Hill :       Cor.  of  Union  St.  and  Palisade  A», 

P.  IIEERBRANDT  &  CO. 
"  Hoboken  :  1.15  *  J37  Washington  St. 

BUDENBENDER &  MOLLER. 
"  Staten  Island  :  Cor.  of  Bay  &  Canal  St., 

Stapleton.  J.  A.  JANNIN, 
Branch  office  in  Newark,  N.  J.  :     153  Market  St.  FRED.  J.  T>.  RUMPF,  General  Agent. 


iiih MONTH.       NOVEMBER,,     1  8  G  8. 


80  DAYS. 


MOON'S    PUASES.;    BOSTON      ,XE\y  YOKl: 


Third  Quarter 
New  Moon  . .  . 
First  Qaarrer  . . 
Full    UuOD 


H.  M. 

y  3  rao. 

H  1  i   mo. 

2  2  mo. 

8  Iti  uv. 


II.  i\. 

S  51   wo. 

5  5vj  1110. 

1  50  mo. 

8  4  ev. 


WATHTOX.   CHARLES'N 
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H.  M. 

8  .^J  mo. 

5  47  mo. 

1  38  mo. 

7  52  ev. 


H.  M. 

8  27  mo. 

,5  55  mo 

1  2fi  mo. 

7  40  ev. 


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01  DAYS. 


MOON'S    PHASES. 


Third    Quarter 
New    Moon  . .  . 
First  Quarter 
Full    Mood 


CHARLES'N 


H.     M. 

4  2fi  ev. 
■J5  ev. 
11     2it  ev. 

8    39  mo. 


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4 

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8 

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11 

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14 

ECLIPSES  FOR  THE  "TEAR  1363. 

There  will  be  only  two  Eclipses  this  year,   both  of  the  Sun,   and  neither  of  them  visible  In  the 
tJQitcd  States. 

I.  Aq   Annular   Eclipse   of  the  Sun,   February  23.    Visible  in  South  America,   Africa  and 
Sonihern  Europe. 

II.  A  Total  Eclipse  of  the  Sun.   August  18.     Visible  in  Eastern  Africa,  Southern  Asia,  and 
in  Australia. 

A  Transit  or  Meecort  over  the  Sun's  disc,  will  occur  November  5.    Invisible  in  the  Upit«d 
States. 


MORNING  STARS. 

Venus  (Q)  after  July  16. 
Mar»  ((J)  from  January  2  to  November  13. 
Jupiter  (Oj.)  from  March  10  to  July  4. 
Saturn  (T^)  until  Feb.  24,  and  afier  Nov.  29. 


EVENING  STARS. 

Venus  until  July  16. 

Mars  until  January  2,  and  after  November  13. 
Jupiter  until  March  10.  aud  after  July  4. 
Saiurn  from  February  24  to  November  29. 


THE  FOUR  SEASONS. 

D.  U.    M. 

Winter    begins,  1867.  December  22,  1    31  mo.,  and  lasts. 

Spring  "        1863,  March        20,  2    27  mo.. 

Summer      "        1868,  June  20,  10    54  eve.,       " 

Autumn       "        1868,  Sept.  22,  1     25  eve  .        " 

Winter         "        16Grf,  December21,  7    20  mo..  Trop.year,    365 


D. 

B. 

H. 

.f3 

0 

5(5 

.92 

20 

27 

93 

14 

31 

.89 

17 

55 

363 

5 

49 

CYCLES  OF  TIME  AND  CHURCH  DAYS. 


Dominical  Letters ED 

Epact 6 

Golden  Number 7 

Solar  Cycle 1 

Koman  Indiction 11 

Jewish  Lunar  Cycle 4 

Dionvsi-.in  Period 197 

Julian  Period 6581 


Septuagesima  Sund...Feb.  9 

Sexagesima           ''             "  16 

Quiuqiia^esima    '"             "  i3 

Ash  Wednesday "  26 

Quadragesima  Sund.,   Mar.  1 

Mid-Lent  Sunday.    ..       "  22 

Palm  Sunday April  5 

Good    Friday "  10 


Easter   Sunday April  13 

Lqw  Sunday April  lU 


Rotation  Siiuday. 

Ascension  Day  

Pentecct  .Sunday  ., 

Trinity  Sunday 

Middle  of  ilie  Vear. 


May 


June 
July 


Ad vect  Sunday Nov. 


On  the  12th  of  May,  1606,  a  star  of  the  second  magnitude  suddenly  appeared  in  the  constella- 
tion of  the  Northern  Crown,  but  quickly  began  to  lose  its  brillance.  Its  light  being  examined  by 
the  spectroscope,  showed  two  disiinct  spectra,  one  like  that  of  the  other  stars  and  of  the  sun,  the 
other  consisting  of  four  bright  lines,  indicating  the  comhustion  of  gas,  esi)ycially  hydrcen. 
The  great  brightness  of  the  lines  showed  that  the  luminous  gas  was  butter  than  the  star 
itself.  These  indications,  together  with  the  suddennes  of  the  outburst  of  light,  and  its  rapij 
decline  from  the  second  magnitude  to  the  eigtht  in  twelve  days,  suggest  the  startling  conceptioa 
that  the  star  had  suddenly  become  enwrapped  in  the  flames  of  burning  hydrogen  which  also 
intensified  the  heat  and  light  of  the  star  itself,  till  the  caase  of  the  combusiion  wa.s  exhausted,  and 
the  star  relapsed  to  its  former  insignificance.  All  this,  though  so  recently  visib.e  to  us,  must  have 
occurred  many  years  ago. 

The  Meteoric  Showee  of  November,  1866,  which  was  so  brilliant  in  Eurojye  and  so  insigni- 
ficant or  invisible  in  America,  has  led  two  eminent  astronomers  in  Paris  and  Milan  to  form  the 
same  conclusions  —  each  from  his  own  observations  and  calculatio's.  Tliey  agree  in  ascribinr^ 
these  meteors  to  one  or  more  vast  nebulous  masses,  moving  in  very  elliptical  orbits,  which  briu  ^^ 
them  at  long  regular  intervals  within  the  earth's  attraction  and  the  oxidizing  and  iguitin" 
influence  of  the  atmosphere.  Le  Veirier  judges  that  their  orbit  extends  as  far  at  least  a« 
to  the  orbit  of  Uranus;  and  both  astronomers  fix  their  period  of  revolutitn  ai  33!^  years. 
The  orbit  of  the  November  meteors  nearly  coincides  with  that  of  Tenipol's  cjmet,  the  first 
of  1866  ;  while  the  August  meteors  have  an  orbit  almost  identical  with  tliat  of  the  great 
comet  of  1862. 


Clerk 


Ente'-ed   acording  to   Act  of  Congress,   in   the   year   1867,   by   Frdr.    Gerhard,   in  tha 
■k'g  Office  »f  the  District  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  Southern  District  of  New-York 


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Seen  favorably  known  and  Extensively  U^cd  in  New  York 
City  and  vicinity  for  upwards  of 

TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS. 


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MADAME  ZADOC  PORTER'S 

GUMTIfl  eeiei  BILSM, 

Price,  25,  50  &  75  Cents  per  Bottle. 

The  Best,  Clieapest,  and  most  effectual  Bemedy  for  Coughs,  Colds,  &c.,  (he   World  has  ever  pro- 
duced.    Purely  VeytahU,  contains  no  3Iinerals  or  other 
Deleterious  Drwjs. 

The  cukative  BALSAM  is  Warranted,  if  tised  according 
to  Directions,  to  cure  or  relieve  in  all  cases,  Codohs,  Colds, 
Croup,  Whooping  Cough,  Asthma  aad  all  affections  of  ilie 
Throat  and  Lungs. 

Madame  Zadoc  Porter's  Balsam  is  a  purely  Vegetable 
Expectorant,  prepared  with  great  care  and  scientific  skill, 
from  a  combination  of  the  beat  remedies  the  vegetable 
kingdom  affords. 

Its  vemeiiial  qualities  are  based  on  its  power  to  assist  the 
healthy  and  vigorous  circulation  of  the  Blood  through  the 
Lungs. 

It  enlivens  the  muscles  and  assists  the  skin  to  perform 
the  duties  of  regulating  the  heat  of  the  system,  and  'v\. 
gently  throwing  off'  the  waste  substance  from  the  surface  of  | 
the  boily. 

It  loosens  the  phlesrm.  induces  free  spitting,  and  will  be 
found  VERY  AGU?:EABLE  TO  THE  TASTE.  It  is  not  al 
violent  remedy,  but  emollient,  warming  searching  and  eft'ec-j 
tive  ;  and  can  be  taken  by  the  oldest  person  or  youngest  ^ 
child. 

If  3'ou  have  a  Cold,  if  ever  so  slight,  do  not  fail  to  give 
the  Balsam  a  trial,  as  tlie  very  low  price  at  which  it  is  sold 
brings  it  within  tiie  reach  of  every  one,  that  they  may  al- 
ways keep  it  convenient  for  use.  The  timely  use  of  a 'i.*) 
cent  bottle  will  often  prove  it  to  be  worth  a  hundred  times 
its  cost. 
"7.5  renin  f>'  tile  is  more  profiti^hh  to  the  consumer  as  it  contains  fonr  times  die  quantity 
m  the  sinidl  bottle.     Sold  by  all  Druyyists. 

RUOKEL  &  HETOEL,  Proprietors, 


The 
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15 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CHURCH  IN  1867. 


The  "American  Ecclesiasiical  Almanac" 
JntenfU  to  give  ii  bii^'f  ao  omit  ot  the  must  im- 
P'jrtant  events  in  the  religious  history  of  tho 
year,  togoiher  with  tlie  latest  and  cjmpletost 
•ttitistic.il  iutelligence  on  tue  several  reiigious 
dBnominalions  ol  this  and  other  couutries  It 
is  to  be  a  brief  comiieaditira  of  important  facts 
and  fi:;ures,  wliich.  it  is  supposed,  will  infere-it 
alike  members  of  all  religions  denominations. 
It  has  been  our  endeavor  to  avoid  ail  paitizan- 
ship,  and  to  be.  in  all  our  stuteraents.  im|.a  tial 
ami  accurate  ;  aud.  so  far  as  the  brief  space  of 
the  Almanac  allows,  we  have  aimed  at  com- 
pleteness. 

Although  the  Almanac  briefly  notices  re- 
ligious movements  of  every  kind,  it  is  chiefly  a 
chronicle  of  the  history  of  the  Christian  Church. 
Commonly,  the  Christian  Church  is  divided  into 
three  large  groups.  The  first  of  th  se  is  tlie 
Roman  Catholic  Church;  the  second  is  formed 
by  the  Creek  and  the  other  Eas.eru  Churches  ; 
while  all  the  others  have  frequently  been  com- 
prised under  the  collective  name  of  Protestants 
or  of  Bible  Christians,  although  neither  name 
bas  been  generally  accepted. 

One  of  the  largest  denominations  of  Chris- 
tians the  Anglican  Church,  is  in  a  state  of 
transition.  Cne  pai  ty  in  it  claims  to  be  one  of 
the  Protestant  group  of  churches ;  another 
wishes  to  be  regarded  as  substantially  one  with 
the  Greek  and  Eastern  Ciurches.  and  endeavors 
to  bring  about  a  closer  union  with  these  cnurch- 
es.  The  conflict  of  these  parties  gi  ve-<  a  special 
Importance  to  the  "  Pan-Anglican  Synod,"  or 
the  first  general  meeting  of  iiishnps  of  all  the 
branches  of  the  Anglican  communion,  which 
■WAS  held  in  I5tj7. 

A  majority  of  the  Protestant  churches,  al- 
though dilloiing  in  some  points  of  their  creed, 
agree  in  beliering  in  the  divinity  of  Christ,  iu 
the  inspiration  of  the  tjible,  »nd  in  the  Bible  a4 


the  only  rule  of  faith.     Thsy  are  commonly  de« 

signaled  by  the  eollective  n:-inie  of  "  Evangeli- 
cal Djniimin.uions."  They  have  emleavoied  to 
effect  a  perni^iuent  union  by  the  estanlishmeuS 
of  the  ■' Evani-elicai  Alliance  "  which  last  year 
held  its  fifth  oecumenical  council.  They  have 
also  in  common  many  religious  Societies,  such 
as  Bible  aud  Tract  Societies  and  Young  Meu's 
Christian  Associations. 

Among  tho  deuominations  not  repre-ented 
in  the  •' Evangelical  A.liance,"  are  the  Unita- 
rians, Univei'aalists,  and  the  "  Christian  Con- 
nection," which  have  of  late  begun  to  unite  in  the 
establishment  of  "  Liberal  Christian  Unions." 
They  differ  from  the  djaomiuat;om;  comprised 
under  the  name  of  "  Evangelical "  in  many  doc- 
triiiej,  regarded  by  the  latter  as  essential,  but 
agree  with  them  iu  accepting  the  Bible  as  thu 
rule  of  their  faith 

There  are  a  number  of  smaller  communions, 
also  accei)ting  the  bible  as  the  rule  of  faith, 
but  keeping  outside  of  the  above-mentioned  or- 
ganizations. 

There  are,  finally,  organizations  which  pro- 
fess a  belief  in  the  religion  founded  by  Christ, 
but  refuse  to  accept  the  liible  as  the  unchanging 
standard  of  faith.  This  opinion  is  held  by 
men  and  parties  in  a  number  of  the  Europeaa 
Sta'.e  Churches,  where  it  is  commonly  designa- 
ted as  Rationalism  or  Liberalism.  A  new  or- 
ganizatiou,  intended  to  embrace  men  of  these 
views,  was  established  last  year  in  the  United 
States,  under  the  name  of  "Free  Religious  As- 
sociation." 

All  the  more  important  facts  in  the  history 
o'  these  churches  and  organizations  will  be  no- 
ticed in  this  Almanac  ;  and  though  it  is  impos- 
sible to  obtain  absolute  completeness,  we  feel 
Cunfident  tliat  no  oilier  publication  in  the  Eng 
lish  or  any  other  language  presents  a  fuller 
amount  of  information. 


THE  EVANGELICAL  ALLIANCE. 


3 — History  of  the  Evangelical  Aili- 


It  is  about  twenty-two  years  since  the  idea 
of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  was  elaborated  by 
a  Conference  held  at  Liverpool.  This  conference 
was  preparatory  in  its  character,  and  after  a 
Ions  discussion  of  the  points  common  to  "  evan- 
pelical  denominations."  itmade  membership  of  j 
the  alliance  de|)endent  upon  nine  tenets,  among 
Whichwere  the  inspiration  of  the  Scriptures, 
the  Trinity  the  utter  depravity  of  human  na- 
ture, the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ  and  the  Atone- 
ment, justifloation  by  faith  alone,  and  the  Di- 
vine institution  of  the  sacraments  of  Bantism 
and  the  Lord's  Supper.  The  first  attempt  to  fix 
a  common  creed  of  evangelical  Protestantism 
did  not  meet  g-neral  approval,  as  it  excluded 
denominations  like  the  Friends  and  the  Ply- 
mouth brethren.  The  fi-st  General  Assanbly 
«f  the  members  and  friends  of  the  Alliance  was 


held  in  1846,  in  London,  under  the  Prssideney 
of  Sir  Culling  Eardley  Smith,  one  of  t  e  origi- 
nators and  actio  promoters  of  the  alliance, 
England,  the  United  States,  and  Germany,  were 
represented.  Belief  in  immortality,  the  judg- 
ment of  the  world  through  Ciirist,  t  c  everlast- 
ing bliss  of  heaven,  and  the  everlasting  damna- 
tion of  the  wiciied.  were  added  to  tho  ininciples 
previously  adopted.  The  alliance  spread  io 
France,  Switzerland,  and  Belgium,  without 
agreement  with  its  definition  of  the  evangelical 
creed  being  insisted  on.  It  met  with  much  op- 
position in  Germany  from  the  Lutherans,  who 
did  not  find  the  creed  sufBciently  exi)licit  on 
certain  points,  and  from  the  disciples  of  Schlei- 
ermacher,  who  disapproved  of  some  of  the  arti- 
cles. A  second  assembly  was  held  in  Paris  ia 
1855,  on  the  occasion  of  tne  World's  Exhibition. 
The  tinrii  meeting  yia,^  held  in  Berlin,  in  1857. 
The  ("  Confessional  ")  Lutherans  became  mora 
determined  in  their  opposition,  while  the  Evan- 
gelical party  of  Germany,  though  approving  of 


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th«  general  scope  of  tb*  alliance,  deemed  It  in- 
expedient to  iusist  on  acceiitance  of  the  nine 
pribciples  as  a  cuudition  of  meuibcrship.  I'his 
ueeiiug  waj  larj^ely  attended,  delegates  from 
Macao.  Africa,  and  Australia  being  present,  and 
brought  the  alliance  more  prominently  before 
tha  churches  of  Coutinental  Europe.  The/ourth 
mettinif  was  held  at  Geueva  in  166(1.  It  was 
successful,  notwithsianding  the  declension  of 
the  Genevan  National  Church  to  sympathize 
with  its  objects.  Dr.  Guthrie,  of  Scotland  ;  Dr. 
Baird,  of  the  United  States;  Monod,  I'resens^, 
aud  Gasparin,  of  France  ;  Kruramacher  and 
Dosner,  of  Germany  ;  Groen  van  Priosterer,  of 
Holland  ;  and  Merle  d'Aubigne,  of  Switzerland, 
Were  among  ths  most  prominent  and  active 
members.  The  fifth  meeting  was  to  hire  been 
held  at  Amsterdam  in  1b66,  but  was  pustponed. 
on  account  of  the  prevalence  ot  the  cholera  at 
tii«  appointed  time,  till  ]867. 

2.— Conference  of  1867. 

The  Jijih  General  Conference  actually  took 
place  at  .-imsterdamon  the  18th  of  August,  1867. 
The  citizens  of  the  place  extended  a  hearty 
welcome  to  all  the  members.  The  meeting  was 
largely  attended.  Ihere  were  delegates  from 
Fr.ince,  Germany,  Switzerland,  Holland,  Great 
Britain,  the  United  States,  the  liritish  .imer'can 
Provinces,  Italy,  Spain,  Sweden,  and  Eastern 
countries.  Baron  Van  Wassenaar  Catwijk  pre- 
sided. Among  the  more  prominent  delegates 
Were  Dr.  Krummacher,  Prof.  Herzojf.  Dr.  Tho- 
luck,  and  Prol.  Lange,  of  Germany  ;  Pasteur 
Bersier,  Dr.  de  Pressens^,  and  Prof.  St.  Hilaire. 
of  France  ;  Dr.  Guthrie,  of  Scotland  ;  John  Pye 
Smiih.  Archdeacon  Philpot,  aud  8.  Gurney,  M. 
P.,  of  England  ;  Merle  d'Aubigne.  of  Switzer- 
land ;  the  Kev.  Dr.  Prime,  of  the  United  States, 
and  many  others.  The  opening  sermon  was 
preached  by  Prof.  Van  Oosterzee.  Among  the 
nubjects  discussed  were  the  religious  condition 
of  the  Church  of  England,  the  Scottish  church- 
es, the  connection  of  Missions  With  Civilization, 
Christianity,  and  Literature,  and  Art  and  .Sci- 
ence ;  the  methods  of  operating  missions  :  tlie 
religious  condition  of  Germany,  France,  Hol- 
land, Belgium,  and  Italy ;  Evangelical  Non- 
conformity ;  Christianity  and  the  Nationalities  ; 
and  various  subjects  of  theology  and  philosophy. 
Interesting  reports  were  received  of  the  pro- 
gress of  religious  liberty  in  Turkey,  and  of  the 
thraldom  of  opinion  in  Spain.  The  oiiservance 
of  the  .Sabbaih  receive'!  especial  consideration, 
resulting  in  the  adoption  of  a  resolution  calling 
upon  the  members  of  the  Alliance  to  use,  in 
their  several  places  of  abode  and  spheres  of  in- 
fluencs,  earnest  endeavors  to  secure  from  Slates, 
Municip  ilities,  and  masters  of  establishments, 
from  every  o^ie,  the  weekly  day  of  rest  from  la- 
bor, in  order  tljat  all  may  freely  and  fu'ly  par- 
ticipate in  the  tei^iiporal  aud  spiritual  benefits 
of  the  Lord's  day." 

A  letter  of  affection  and  sympathy  was 
adopted  to  Christians  scattered  abroid.  pariic- 
ularly  to  those  who  are  laboring  against  the 
hostile  inliuvnces  of  heathenism  or  of  supersti- 
tion, and  whose  rights  of  public  worship  are  re- 
•traioed  or  abridged.  An  address  of  protest 
against  war  was  adopted.  Statistics  were  giveu 
of  Toung  Men's  Christian  Afsociations,  showing 
that  theie  are  in  the  Ciiiistian  world  upwards 
ti  eight  luiudred  such  associations,  numbering 
npwarcis  of  55,0(10  niemiiers.  Special  meetings 
Weri»  h«lU  on  Sunday  Schools  aud  systematic 


benevolence.  A  series  of  meetings  f)r  the  poor 
were  held  in  one  of  the  mission  rooms  of  tha 
city,  with  wholesome  effect,  aud  two  trmperaiiO« 
meetings. 

An  invitation  was  presented  and  urged  by 
the  representatives  of  the  American  branch  t« 
hold  the  next  (ieneral  Conference  at  New  York, 
which  was  referred  to  the  different  branches  of 
the  Alliance  for  consideration. 

The  assembly  adjourned  on  Tuesday,  fh« 
27th  of  August,  but  on  the  following  day  aa 
open-air  missionary  me  ting  was  held  at  Vogel- 
gesang,  at  which  ten  thousand  persons  were  ad- 
dressed in  French,  Dutoli,  ami  Get  man. 

The  Evangelical  Alliance"  of  the  United 
States  was  organized  in  New  York  city  on  (ha 
3tlth  of  January.  1867.  Eminent  divines  and 
laymen  of  the  Episcopal,  Methodist.  Presbyte- 
rian, German  Reformed,  Kelormed  Dutch,  ad 
Baptist  churches,  and  from  various  parts  of  the 
country,  signified  their  approval  of  the  move- 
ment, either  by  attendance  in  person  or  by  let- 
ter. A  letter  of  cooperation  was  read  from  ths 
Secretary  of  the  British  branch  of  the  Alliance* 
Hon.  Wm.  E.  Dodge  is  President  of  the  Ameri- 
can branch. 

The  central  idea  of  the  Evangelical  Allianco 
is  to  represent  to  the  world  the  .spiritual  unity 
of  the  Evangelical  deuominations,  and  to  estab- 
lisli  between  them  a  bond  of  union.  The  Brit- 
ish branch,  only,  of  the  National  branches,  has 
been  in  the  practice  of  holding  annual  meet- 
ings. 

3.— Report  of  the  American  Branch. 

The  report  on  the  state  of  religion  in  the 
United  States  of  America,  which  was  presented 
by  Dr.  Benry  B.  Smith.  Chairman  of  the  Exec- 
utive Committee  of  the  American  branch  of  the 
Alliance,  after  a  brief  reference  to  the  ties  of 
sympathy,  particularly  in  a  religious  aspect, 
between  the  United  States  aud  Holland,  dwelt 
at  length  upon  the  character  and  results  of  the 
American  civil  war;  its  causes,  the  nature  of 
the  questions,  moral  and  political,  which  were 
involved  in  it,  and  what  has  been  obtained  by 
it,  particularly  the  national  unity  and  V.ie  ex- 
tinction of  slavery  It  referred  to  the  workings 
of  the  Freedmen's  Bureau,  and  the  bright  pros- 
pects which  are  presented  for  the  moral  and  in- 
tellectual development  of  the  colored  popula- 
tion. 

The  doctrine  of  the  separation  of  Church 
and  State  was  incidentally  referred  to  as  sus- 
tained by  the  events  of  the  war  This  repara- 
tion, it  was  shown,  does  not  imply  iiidiffercce, 
still  le  8  opposition,  of  the  Goverumeni  to 
Christianity,  for  the  Government,  in  numerous 
acts  of  its  highest  officers,  shows  a  tacit  recog- 
nition of  Christianity;  an  fffurt  is  being  mad-;, 
moreover,  to  have  an  exp-ess  recognition  insert- 
ed in  the  National  Constitution.  .Vmerica  i 
churches,  under  the  voluntary  system,  show  a 
•arger  growth  than  ahy  other.  The  operations 
of  th*  chur>  lies  have  not  been  impeded,  but  in- 
vigorated and  accelera'ed,  by  the  war.  Its  di- 
rec(;  fruits  were  an  impulse  of  benei'olencesho'va 
in  the  organization  and  Hoeial  support  of  the 
Sanitary  anil  Christian  Commissions,  and  ither 
enterprises  for  the  benefit  of  the  8oi,liers.  statis- 
tics of  the  operations  of  which  were  given,  fhs 
rapid  advai  c-s  of  other  benevolent  enterprises, 
and  of  education,  were  described. 

The  report  th-'n  gave  a  summary  of  the  edu- 
cational statist  a  of  the  couuir. ,  the  operation! 


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of  the  missionary,  religious,  and  charitable  so- 
cieUes,  of  Youuj;  Meu's  (ihristiaa  Associalious 
and  Sunday  dcliools  ;  anJ  fiimlly,  a  review  of 
the  strength,  tDterprise,  and  conaitiun  of  all  the 
churches  severally,  of  the  Uuiteil  Slates. 

la  couclusiou,  it  is  naid,  referring  to  the  di- 


versity of  denominations  in  America  :  "  But  in 
all  this  diversity  of  tongues,  there  is  still  one 
language.  We  hare  one  Lord,  one  faith,  and 
one  bapiism.  Our  differences  are  chiefly  exter- 
nal and  superficial  ;  our  uuiou  is  eternal  and 
vital." 


THE  PAN-ANGLICAN  SYNOD. 


The  so-called  "  P^n-Anglican  Synod"  was 
called  in  pursuance  of  a  resolution  passed  by 
tli8  Convocation  of  Canterbury  in  February  last, 
requesting  the  Archbishop  to  give  an  invitation 
to  all  hishops  in  communion  with  the  Church  ot 
England  to  assemble  for  the  purpose  of  united 
deliberation  on  matters  of  common  interest  at 
home  and  abroad.  The  24th  of  September  was 
appointed  as  the  time  of  meeting. 

The  following  is  a  summary  of  the  churches 
called  Anglican,  whose  Bishops  were  included 
iu  this  invitation : 

3 The  Anglican  Chxirches. 

I.  The  Established  Church  of  Enirland.— 
This  has  two  Archbishops,  of  Canterbury  and 
York,  with  twenty-six  Bishops,  of  whom  twenty 
are  attached  to  the  Convocation  of  Canterbury, 
and  six  to  that  of  Yorlt.  It  is  estimated  that 
one-half,  or  1U,0:jO,OUO,  of  the  population  of  Eng- 
land, are  under  the  control  of  this  church. 

II.  Churc/i  of  Ireland. — It  has  two  Arch- 
bishops, of  Dublin  and  Armagh,  with  ten  Bish- 
ops, equally  divided  between  the  Provinces. 
The  population  connected  with  it  is  estimated  at 
657,661. 

III.  The  Scotch  Episcopal  Church. — This 
has  Steven  Bishops.    The  member.-hip  is  small. 

IV.  Tue  Efjiscopal  Colonial  Churches. — 
These  have  fifty  Bishops,  all  except  those  of  Je- 
rusalem,  the  Sandwich  Islands,  Melanesia,  and 
Central  Africa,  within  British  dominions.  Ec- 
clesiastical Provinces  with  Metropolitan  heads, 
have  been  formed  in  Canada,  India,  South  Afri- 
ca, Australia-,  and  New  Zealand. 

V.  The  "  Prolfatiint  Episcopal  Church  of 
the  United  States."— This  has  forty-four  Bish- 
ops, The  Senior  Bishop  (Hopkins,  of  Vermont,) 
pre.-ides  over  the  House  of  Bishops  at  the  tri- 
ennial General  Convention,  and  is  styled  the 
Presiding  Bishop.  Number  of  communicants 
(166o),  161,224. 

2.— Meeting  of  the  Synod. 

The  Synod  was  formally  opened  in  the 
Archiepiscopal  Palace  at  Lambeth  on  the  24th 
of  September,  with  religious  services,  which 
were  followed  by  a  discourse  by  Bishop  White- 
house,  of  Illinois,  who  had  been  pre.-eut  at  the 
meeting  of  the  Convocation,  at  which  the  call- 
ing of  the  Synod  was  projected,  and  was  chosen 
to  this  office  for  that  reason,  and  as  a  compli- 
ment to  the  American  church.  Seventy-six 
Bishops  were  in  attendance. 

The  sessions  were  not  open  to  the  public,  but 
the  Archbishop  was  commissioned  to  furnish  an 
official  report  of  the  proceedings.  The  more 
important  portions  of  them  were  communicated 
to  the  public  immediately  after  the  adjournment 
of  the  .Synod,  iu  a  semi-oflacial  mauuer.    They 


are  covered  by  a  series  of  reso'-'itions.  which 
were  i)receded  by  a  preamble  expressing  the 
conviction  of  the  Bishops  that  the  unity  of  the 
church  "'will  be  most  effectually  promoted  by 
maintaining  the  faith  in  its  purity  and  integri- 
ty—as taught  in  the  Holy  Scriptures,  held  by 
the  Primitive  Church,  summed  up  in  the  Creeds, 
and  affirmed  by  the  indisputed  General  Coun- 
cils— and  by  drawing  each  ot  us  closer  to  our 
common  Lord,  by  giving  ourselves  to  much 
prayer  and  intercession,  by  the  cultivation  of 
a  spirit  of  charity,  and  a  love  of  the  Lord's  ap- 
pearing."   The  Resolutions  were  as  follows  : 

1 — That  it  appears  to  us  expedient,  for  the 
purpose  of  maintaining  brotherly  intercommu- 
nication, that  all  cases  of  establishment  of  new 
sees  and  appointment  of  new  Bishops  be  notified 
to  all  Archbishops  and  Metropolitans,  and  all 
presiding  Bishops  of  the  Anglican  Communion. 

2 — That,  having  regard  to  the  conditions  un- 
der which  intercommunion  between  members  of 
the  Church  passing  from  one  distant  diocese  to 
another  may  be  duly  maintained,  we  hereby  de- 
clare it  desirable  :  1.  That  forms  of  letters  com- 
mendatory on  behalf  of  clergymen  visiting  oth- 
er dioceses  be  drawn  up  and  agreed  upon.  2. 
That  forms  of  letters  commendatory  for  lay  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  be  iu  like  manner  prepared. 
3.  That  his  Grace  the  Lord  jirchbishop  of  Can- 
terbury be  pleased  to  undertake  the  prepara- 
tion of  such  forms. 

3 — That  a  committee  be  appointed  to  draw  up 
a  pastoral  address  to  all  members  of  the  Church 
of  Christ  in  communion  with  the  Anglican 
branch  of  the  Church  Catholic,  to  be  agreed  up- 
on by  the  assembled  Bishops,  and  to  be  puolish- 
ed  as  soon  as  possible  after  the  last  sitting  of 
the  Conference. 

4 — That,  in  the  opinion  of  this  Conference- 
unity  of  faith  and  discipline  will  be  best  main- 
tained among  the  several  branches  of  the  Angli- 
can Commuuity  by  due  ani  canonical  subordi- 
nation of  the  Synods  of  the  several  branches  to 
the  higher  authority  of  a  Synod  or  Synod* 
above  them. 

5 — That  a  committee  of  seven  members  (with 
power  to  add  to  their  number,  and  to  obtain  tha 
assi-tancc  of  men  learned  in  ecclesiastics  and 
canon  law)  be  appointed  to  inquire  into  and  re- 
port upon  the  relations  and  functions  of  such 
Synods,  and  that  such  report  be  forwarded  to 
his  Grace  the  Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
with  a  request  that,  if  possible,  it  may  be  com- 
municated to  any  adjourned  meeting  of  i,hii 
Conference. 

6— That,  in  the  judgment  of  the  Bishops  now 
assembled,  the  whole  Anglican  Communion  is 
deeply  injured  by  the  present  comlition  of  tha 
Church  in  Natal  ;  and  that  a  committee  be  now 
appointed  at  this  general  meeting  to  report  on 
the  best  mode  by  which  the  Church  may  be  de- 
livered from  the  contiuuauce  of  this  scandal, 


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end  the  true  fa  th  maintained.  That  such  re- 
port be  forwarded  to  his  Grace  the  Lord  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury,  witli  the  request  tliat  he 
will  be  pleased  to  transmit  the  same  to  all  the 
Uichops  of  the  Anglican  cummunioD,  and  to  ask 
for  their  judgment  thereupon. 

7— That  we  who  are  here  present  do  acquiesce 
in  the  resolutiun  of  the  Convocation  of  Canter- 
bury, passed  on  June  26,  ItibC,  relating  tr  the 
Diocese  of  Natal,  to  wit: 

If  it  bedecidedthat  a  new  Bishop  should  he 
consecrated —lis  to  the  proper  steps  to  be  taken 
by  the  members  of  the  Church  in  the  Province 
of  Natal  for  obtaining  a  new  bishoji,  it  is  the 
opinion  of  this  House — fir.-t,  that  a  formal  in- 
strument, declaratory  of  the  doctrine  and  dis- 
cipline of  the  Church  of  South  Africa,  should 
be  i)repared,  which  every  Bishop,  priest  and 
deacon  should  he  required  tosubscibe  ;  second- 
ly, that  a  godly  and  well-learned  man  should  be 
chosen  by  the  clergy,  with  the  assent  of  the  lay 
communicants  of  the  Church  ;  and  thirdly,  that 
he  -hould  be  presented  for  consecration,  either 
to  the  Ar.hbishop  of  Canterbui'y--if  t'le  afore- 
X  said  instrument  should  declare  the  doctrine  and 
discipline  of  Christ  as  received  by  the  United 
Church  of  England  and  Ireland — or  to  the  Bish- 
ops of  the  Church  of  South  Afrjca,  according  as 
hereafter  may  be  judged  to  be  most  advisable 
and  cmvenieut. 

8— Th  it,  iu  order  to  the  binding  of  the  church- 
es of  our  Colonial  Empire  and  the  missionary 
churches  beyond  them  in  the  clostst  union  with 
the  Mother  Church,  it  is  necessary  that  they  re- 
ceive and  maintain  without  alteration  the  stand- 
ards of  faith  and  doctrine  as  now  in  use  in  that 
Cuurch.  That,  nevertheless,  each  province 
should  have  the  right  to  make  such  adaptations 
and  additions  to  the  sei  vices  of  the  Church  as  its 
pe-.uliar  circumstances  may  require,  provided 
that  no  change  or  addition  be  made  inconsistent 
with  the  spirit  and  principles  of  the  Book  of 
Common  Prayer,  and  that  all  such  changes  be 
liable  to  any  revision  by  any  Synod  of  the  An- 
glican communion  in  which  the  said  province 
slifcll  be  represented. 

9 — That  the  committee  appointed  by  resolu- 
titm  6,  with  the  addition  of  the  names  of  the 
Bishops  of  Lond"n,  St.  David's,  and  Oxford,  and 
all  the  Colonial  Bishops,  be  instructed  to  con- 
sider the  constitution  of  a  voluntarj-  spiritual 
tribuLial,  to  which  questions  ofd.ictrine  may  be 
carried  by  appeal  from  the  tribunals  for  the  ex- 
ercise of  discipline  in  each  province  of  the  Co- 
lonial Church,  and  that  their  report  be  forward- 
ed to  his  Grace  the  Lord  Arclibishop  of  Canter- 
bury, who  is  requested  to  communicate  it  to  an 
Bdjourned  meeting  of  this  Conference. 

lU — That  the  rusol  utioiis  submitted  to  this  Con- 
ference relative  to  the  discipline  to  be  exercised 
by  Metropolitans,  the  Court  of  Metropolitans 
the  scheme  for  conducting  tlie  election  of  liish- 
ops,  when  not  otherwise  provided  for,  the  do- 
claration  of  submission  to  the  regulation  of  the 
Synods,  and  the  question  of  what  legislation 
should  be  proposed  for  the  Colonial  churches, 
be  referred  to  the  committee  specified  in  the 
preceding  resolution. 

il — That  a  special  committee  be  appointed  to 
consider  the  resolutions  relative  to  the  notifica- 
tion of  proposed  Missionary  Bishops,  and  the 
subordinates  of  Missionaries. 

12— That  the  (piestiou  of  the  bounds  of  the  ju- 
lisdictioQ  of  dillereut  Biahops,  when  any  ques- 


tion may  have  arisen  in  regard  to  them,  the 
((uestion  as  to  the  obedience  of  Chaplains  of  tlia 
United  Church  of  England  and  Ireland  on  the 
Continent,  and  the  resolution  submitted  to  the 
Conference  relative  to  their  return  and  admis- 
si.in  into  home  Dioceses,  be  referred  to  the  com* 
mittee  specified  in  the  preceding  resolution. 

13 — That  we  desire  to  render  our  hearty  thanks 
to  Almighty  God  for  His  blessings  vouchsafed  to 
us  in  and  by  this  Conference  ;  and  we  desire  to 
ex))ress  our  hope  that  this  our  meeting  may 
hereafter  be  followed  by  otlier  meetings,  to  be 
conducted  in  the  same  sjoiit  of  brotherly  love. 

The  resolution  in  relation  to  lii.->hop  Colenso 
was  adopted  almost  unanimously,  there  being 
but  three  hands  raised  against  it. 

A  Pa-toral  Addre-s  was  adopted,  and  signed 
individually  by  the  Bishops,  addressed  '  to  the 
faithful  in  Christ  Jesus,  the  priests  and  dea- 
cons, and  the  lay  members"  of  the  Church,  ex- 
horting tlnem  to  keep  whole  and  undefiled  the 
faith,  til  strive  heartily  against  the  frauds  and 
subtleties  wherewith  it  has  been  and  is  assailed  ; 
to  hold  fast  as  the  sure  Word  of  God  all  the  ca- 
nonical Scriptures  of  the  Old  and  New  Testa- 
ment, and.  by  diligent  study  of  these  oracles  of 
G(d  praying  in  the  Holy  Ghost,  to  seek  to  knoif 
more  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  our  Savior,  whom 
they  reveal,  and  of  the  will  of  God  which  they 
declare  ;  to  guard  "  against  the  growing  super- 
stitions and  additions  with  which,  in  these  latter 
days,  the  truth  of  God  hath  been  overlaid," 
particularly  the  .sovereignty  of  the  Pope  and  the 
exaltation  of  the  Virgin  Slary  ;  to  grow  in  graec 
and  show  a  godly  walk  and  example  ;  to  "  hold 
fast  the  creeds,  and  the  pure  wor-liip  and  order, 
which  of  God's  grace  has  been  inherited  from 
the  primitive  chu  ch  ;  to  beware  of  causing  di- 
visions contrary  to  the  doctrine  ye  have  receiv- 
ed," and  to  pray  aud  seek  for  unity  among 
themselves  and  amongst  all  the  faithful  in  Christ 
Jesus. 

A  memorial  was  presented,  signed  by  Dr. 
Pusey,  Dr.  F.  G.  Lee,  the  Rev.  A.  U.  Macono- 
chie,  and  other  clergymen.  exi)ressing  sorrow  at 
the  long-continued  divisions  of  Christendom, 
and  praying  that  steps  might  be  taken  to  jiro- 
mote  intercommunion  between  the  Church  of 
England  aud  the  orthodox  Church  of  the  East. 
The  Synod  made  no  expression  on  the  sub- 
ject of  ritualism. 

Saturday  the  28th  of  September,  was  given 
to  the  closing  ceremonies  of  the  Synod,  which 
were  celebrated  with  a  choral  service  and  com- 
munion in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Mary,  Lam- 
beth, and  a  sermon  by  tl^  Rev.  Dr.  Fulf.ird, 
Bishop  of  Montreal  and  Metropolitan  of  Canada. 
The  Synod  was  a  mere  voluntary  and  infor- 
mal gathering  of  such  Bish  ii)s  as  chose  to  re- 
spond to  the  inv  tation.  and  is  without  legal 
force  or  ciTeet.  Its  significance,  in  the  opinion 
of  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  and  the  Bi-li- 
o])s  who  were  instrnmeiital  in  its  convocation, 
must  be  looked  for  In  its  moral  re-ults,  which 
may  be  great  and  permanent.  They  will  be 
found  in  the  beter  understandins:  which  will 
be  promoted  among  the  Bishops,  increast-d  har- 
mony of  action,  particularly  betwt-en  those  of 
di-fifei-ent  jurisdiction  who  occupy  cuniiguoui 
teVrimry.  and  in  the  stronger  tendency  tt)  pre- 
serve uniformity  of  doctrine  and  prictice. 
Thoii-.-h  an  informa'  one.  it  ma\  be  regarded  as 
a  first  step  towards  uniting  all  the  Anglican 
churches  iuio  a  common  body. 


19 


BIBLE  SOCIETIES. 


1. — American  Bible  Society, 

One  hundred  and  fifty-five  auxiliary  soci- 
eties have  been  recognized  during  the  year 
ending  May  1st,  1867,  of  wlncli  sixty-four  were 
in  the  Southern  and  border  State*.  The  whole 
number  of  auxiliaries  in  llie  tiL-ld  is  1639,  and 
of  branch  societies  3,805.  Tiie  Society  employs 
forty-five  agents,  of  whom  there  are  in  foreign 
lands  sixteen  assi-tant  agents,  and  sixiy-oue 
colporteurs,  besides  whiiii  tliere  are  135  agents 
employed  by  County  >ocieties,  and  20,373  vol- 
untary local  agents,  or  Uible  visitors.  Its  ag(.'n- 
cies  are  established  in  eveiy  state  o  the  Union, 
except  those  that  are  occupied  by  State  Bible 
Societies  that  emidoy  their  own  agen;s. 

The  total  receiiits  of  the  year  ending  May 
1st,  1S67.  were  $734,()ft9  14,  coining  from  ihirty- 
nine  States  and  Territorifs  and  twelve  foreign 
countries.  Of  these.  $431,e'i4.b8  were  from  s  iles 
of  books.  $174, 83a, 46  from  donations  and  collec- 
tions, $105,971.96  from  legacies,  a.id  21  0U6.94 
from  rents.  These  are  $Jl,4ii3.94  larger  tnan 
the  receipts  of  the  Jubilee  year,  $56,237.76 
litrger  than  those  of  any  jirevious  ytar  ol  l.irg- 
est  receipts 

The  issues  from  the  Depository  were  406,.^51 
Toluinei,  worth  $52,.,6:<5.73.  of  which  843,177 
volumes,  worth  $443,367.18,  were  sold,  and 
173.177  volumes,  north  $61,924.07,  were  given 
away.  This  is  the  largest  number  of  issues  ever 
given  out,  except  during  the  war. 

There  were  jirinted  at  the  Bible  House  dur- 
ing the  year,  635,7.  8  volumes  of  editiims  of  the 
Bible,  Testamems  and  parts  of  the  Bible,  and 
313.S5U  volumes  abroad, making  a  total  of  1,249,- 
318.  The  entire  number  of  I3ibles  published  by 
the  Society,  during  the  fifty-one  years  of  its  ex- 
istence, is  22.'J4(I,4U4. 

In  accordance  with  a  resolution  passed  at 
the  Jubilee  of  il ay,  1806.  a  third  f;eneral  sup- 
ply of  the  United  St.ites  with  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures has  been  begun.  The  books  given  away 
jn  pursuance  of  it,  numbered,  at  ttie  date  of  the 
last  annual  report.  173.177  volunus,  and  they 
were  valued  at  $-'1,924.07.  Of  these,  141,571 
volumes  were  for  the  South,  and  31,606  for  other 
sections  of  the  Union.  But  the-e  really  include 
but  a  small  noruou  of  the  L-r,ituitous  work  which 
has  been  accom|pli!.hed  by  the  Socie'y.  Tlio>e 
volumes  which  have  been  jiurciased.  ar.d  dis- 
tributed by  auxiliaries,  must  lie  adiled.  The 
extent  of  the  resupply  will  be  more  truly  seeu 
in  the  facts  report.cd  by  agents,  that  496.248  fam- 
ilies have  been  vi>ited  by  Bibis  distm  uters ; 
that  3t).533  families  have  been  supplied  with  the 
Scripture-,  besides  111,554  to  caildren,  and  other 
individuals  ;  that  709  Sabbai.K'  and  oilier  schools 
have  been  luniished,  in  addition  to  all  those 
supplied  by  the  .American  Sunday  School  Union 
and  similar  societies,  to  which  grams  have  Ijeen 
made  for  this  ])ur])ose.  During  the  year  pre- 
vious 307,698  families  were  Visited  ;  14,846  des- 
titute su|>phed  ;  making  a  lo'al  in  two  years  of 
814,186  families  visited,  and  51,379  destitute 
familiers  supplies. 

K-peciai  attention  lias  been  paid  to  the 
Soutliern  States.  Including  those  purchased, 
270,312  Bibles  were  sent  to  the  tiimth  liuriiig  the 
year,  making  about  half  a  million  since  the 
close  of  the  war.  The  most  interesting  part  of 
this  work  is  among  the  froedmen,  whose  anxiety 
to  possess  and  reail  the  itible  is  pron  lunced  re- 
mar  , able,  and   has  nothing   compaiaole  to  it 


among  the  whites  or  foreigners.  Bible  societies 
composed  of  colortd  peo]de  have  been  formed 
at  Nashville  and  Kiioxville,  Tenn.,  Columbia, 
S.  C,  and  other  places,  and  several  societies 
employ  colored  colporteurs.  The  army  agency 
has  been  continueu  in  connection  with  the  agen- 
cy to  the  fi  eedmen,  and  also  that  to  the  naval 
and  mercautile  marine. 

The  Gospels  of  Matthew  and  John  and  the 
Epistle  to  the  Kphesians  have  been  published  in 
Microuesiau.  and  the  Arabic  Bibie  has  been 
printed.  Platen  have  been  prepared  for  a  Ha- 
waiian Family  bible, and  a  Slavic  and  Bulgarian 
I'estainent.  This  society  publishes  262  editions 
of  the  Bible  and  parts,  in  upwards  of  forty  dif- 
ferent laDfua^'es  and  dialrc:s,  of  America,  Asia, 
Europe,  Atrica,  and  the  i.-lands  of  the  ocean. 

Tlie  foreign  work  of  the  America  .  Bible  So- 
ciety IS  prosecuted  in  all  quarters  of  the  earth. 
The  total  distribution  is  241,066  volumes,  as  fol- 
lows, so  far  as  has  been  reported: 

Brazil  6i9 ;  Argentine  Oonlederation  3,742; 
Italy  8,130;  Russia  (Ksihonia)  11,441  ;  Germai.y 
and  Switzerla'ni  16,920;  Africa  l,3(il  ;  Turkey 
upwiirds  of  lb, 641  ;  China  166,117;  India  about 
2ii.000:  Sandwich  Islands  1,428;  Canada(Kreiich) 
U-6.  Smaller  giants  have  been  made  to  Guiana, 
Venezuela,  Liberia,  Cuba.  India,  &c..  which 
cannot  be  reported  in  detail,  but  amount  to 
about  1 1,000  in  the  aggrei;ate.  1  ht:  Scriptures 
are  pi  anted  abroaii  in  forty  different  languages 
and  dialects,  and  at  home  in  thirty-two. 

The  slated  m  etings  of  the  Socieiy,  which 
have  been  held  monthly  since  the  anniversary 
in  M  ij'.  exliibit  continued  enterprise  and  pros- 
perity on  the  part  of  the  Society,  its  branches 
and  auxiliaries,  showing  new  accessions,  and 
disclosing  new  helds  of  distribution. 

2.— British  and  Foreign  Bible    So- 
ciety. 

The  5eld  of  operations  of  this  Society  ex- 
tends into  nearly  all  the  accessible  quarters  of 
the  world.  It  has  its  headquariers  at  Loudon, 
and  has  branch  and  auxiliary  societies  through- 
out the  British  Isles,  in  all  the  British  colonies 
:n  America,  A.';ia.  .\frica.  and  Australasia,  and 
at  Carlsruhe,  Florence.  Hamburgh,  C  lustanti- 
nople.  Frankfort.  Stuttgar  and  Cionstadt,  Gi- 
braliar,  Corfu,  Dresden,  on  the  continent  of  Eu- 
rope, and  Smyrna,  and  depositories  at  Paris, 
Brussels.  Arasterd.im,  Franklort.  Cologne,  Ber- 
lin, Vienna,  Sco.-kholm,  various  points  in  Nor- 
way, Copenhagen.  St.  Petersburg.  Leghorn.  Lis- 
bon. Mexico,  and  Buenos  Ayes,  and  several  oth- 
er places  in  Eurojie  and  other  countries  The 
number  of  auxiliaries  ard  branches  in  Kugland 
and  \Val«s  given  in  ihe  repo:  t  of  May  1st,  1667, 
is  4,liai,  to  which  should  be  added  50S  connect- 
ed with  Ihe  Hibern'an  Bibie  Society,  and  1,275 
.u  the  colonies,  other  Jependeiic.es,  &c.  Besides 
these,  63  foreign  Bible  societies  (including  three 
in  the  United  States),  have  been  assisted  by  it. 
The  Society  has  printed  the  Bible,  Testaipent, 
or  portions  of  the  Bible,  in  134  languages  and 
dialects,  and  assisted  in  me  circulation  in  44 
others,  making  a  total  of  178  languages  ami 
dialects  in  which  it  has  assisteil  ihe  circulation 
of  the  Scriptures,  and  218  versions. 

The  receipts  during  the  year  ending  May 
1st,  l,sfi7,  from  ordinary  sources,  were  £l71,9:i3, 
i2s.,  6d.,   £10,U93,  18i.,  5d.   in  advance  of  lai>» 


20 


year,  in  addition  *  which  tne  special  funds 
(China,  Iniiia,  for  new  buiidintr,  and  fo'  the 
Paris  Exposition),  swell  the  grand  total  to 
jE187,5(i8,  17s.,  7d,  the  largeit  year's  receipts 
ever  enjoyed  by  the  Society.  The  receipts  are 
thus  classified  :  From  sale  of  Scriptures,  £84,- 
16^,  16s.,  8d  ;  Donations,  £  I2,li63,  43.,  4d.  ;  Lega- 
cies, £15,159.  168.,  7d. — all  showing  an  increase 
over  the  previous  year.  The  number  of  copies 
of  tlie  Scn])tures  circulated  (exclnsive  of  the 
Indian  yeinacular  Scriptures)  is  2,383,380,  an 
increase  of  87,250  over  the  circulation  of  the 
previous  year.  Tlie  total  issues  of  the  Society 
now  amount  to  filty-two  millions,  six  hundred 
and  sixty  nine  thousand  and  eighty-nine  copies. 
The  increase  in  issues  is  in  those  from  the  for- 
eign depots,  which  have  increased  li 4,318  co- 
pies, while  those  from  the  home  depots  have 
fallen  off  77,068  copies.  The  foundatiou  of  a  new 
Bible  House  was  laid  June  11th,  1866.  It  is  to 
cost  about  £4ti,668.  Happy  results  have  gen- 
erally attended  the  operations  of  the  society,  the 
only  serious  embarrassment  being  met  in  some 
Catholic  countries,  like  Portugal,  where,  how- 
ever, 8,778  copies  have  been  circulated  ;  and 
Spam,  where,  to  circulate  the  Bible,  is  still 
made  a  crime. 

3, — ^American  and  Foreign  Bible  So- 
ciety (Baptist). 

The  thirtieth  annual  meeting  was  held  Miy 
25th.  1867,  in  Cliicaco,  Illinois,  The  receipts  of 
the  treasury  from  all  sources,  including  a  bal- 
ance on  hand  at  the  commencement  of  the  year, 
amount  to  $51 ,467.45.  The  appropriations  to  In- 
dia were  as  follows :  Burmese  and  Karen  Scrip- 
tures, $3,000  ;  Assamese,  $500  ;  Teloogoo,  $500  ; 
Chinese  at  Tie  Chien,  $500  ;  Ningpo,  $500  ;  also 
$300  to  China  by  other  channels.  Issued  from 
the  depository  during  the  year,  21,588  copies  of 


Seripturej,  of  which  number  5,863  were  sold  at 

full  or  reduced  prices. 

4.— American  Bible  TJnioa 

The  anniversary  of  this  Society  was  held  In 
New  York  in  October.  Sjjeakitig  of  the  fruit* 
of  the  Union,  the  report  slates  that  the  Biblo 
Union  has  issued  603,184  copies  of  sacred  Sciip- 
ture  ;  number  of  pages,  108.604,418  ;  tracts  and 
quarterlies,  1,716,26a;  number  of  pages.  28,- 
385.140.  These  make  nn  affgregate  Of  2,319.453 
publications,  and  136,989  558  pages.  The  finan- 
cial progress  which  tlie  Union  has  made,  may 
be  judged  by  tlie  following  statistics  :  Receipts, 
1863,  $16,599.01;  1864,  $21,18922;  1805,  $29,- 
231.36;  1860,  $41,799.96  ;  1807,  $55,127.79. 

5.— Other  Bible  Societies. 

The  following  are  the  statistics  of  some  oth* 
er  Bible  Societies  in  Europe  : 

BIBLE  SOCIE  IE3.             Fxpend-  jggug,. 
itures. 

Bible  Translation  Society 8  891.08  ■ 

Trinitarian  Bible  Society....      4,009 

National     Bible     Society    of 

Scotland ' 64.885.04  204,433 

Upper  Canada  Bible  Society  .24.727.56  49,591 

Bible  Society  of  France 2,901.44  6,334 

Protestant    Bible    Society   of 

Paris 7,744.00  10,340 

Basle  Bible  Society     1,030.93  13,269 

Netherlands  Bible  Society..  .18.692  00  35,684 

Central  Prussian  Bible  Soc...   7,744.00  89  293 

Bavarian  Bible  Society 7,958 

Leipsio  Bible  Society 566.28  — — 

Wiirtemberg  Bible  Institution     21,685 

Danish  Bible  Society 8,009 


YOUNG  MEN'S  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION. 


1. — ^The  American  Convention. 

The  Executive  Cammittee  of  the  National 
Convention  of  Young  Men's  Christian  Associ- 
ations roported  at  the  Convention  which  was 
held  at  Montreal  in  June  1867,  that  they  had 
correspimded  with  2.115  Associations,  of  which 
141  rejorted  an  aggregate  of  32.347  members, 
94  reported  an  expemliiure  during  the  year  in 
the  agirregate  of  $164,013,211,  63  reported  a  total 
of  52,378  volumes  in  their  libraries,  25  had 
courses  of  free  lectures.  59  courses  of  sermons 
for  young  men,  and  108  maintained  more  than 
one  weekly  prayer-meeting.  Eleven  years  ago 
the  whole  number  of  associations  was  sixty-sev- 
en. The  convention  of  1867  was  attended  by 
about  600  delegates,  from  106  different  associa- 
tions. Among  the  more  important  topics  dis- 
cussed were  the  best  means  of  reaching  young 
men  apparently  outside  of  religious  influences, 
»nd  German  young  men  and  French  Cauiidian 
residents  of  the  United  States  and  British  Prov- 
inces, the  giving  aid  to  the  formation  of  colored 
associ.Uions  in  the  South,  and  the  .introduction 
oC   worldlv   omusementM   iato   the  ossucia^ioa 


rooms.    An  adverse  expression  wtis  arrived  at 
concerning  the  last, 

2. — Foreign  Associationa. 

The  following  statistics  of  the  associations 
throughout  the  world  were  given  by  Mr.  W.  E, 
Shipton  at  the  Amsterdam  meeting  of  the  Evau- 
gelical  Alliance  :  In  England  there  were  51  as- 
sociations reported,  with  7.390  members ;  in 
Scotland  23,  with  2,031  ;  in  Ireland  6,  with  662  ; 
in  the  colonies  12,  with  223;  Holland  had  100 
associations,  with  2,009  members;  Belgium  II, 
with  167  ;  North  Germany  107.  with  3,026  ;  West- 
phalia 112,  with  5,033  ;  Wurtemberg  44,  with 
560;  France  54,  with  837;  French  Switzerland 
59,  with  587  ;  German  Switzerland  45,  with  400  j 
Italy  5,  with  100;  Mediterranean  5,  with  100; 
North  America  143,  with  33,374.  Altogether 
there  are  perhaps  at  present  upward  of  eight 
hundred  associations,  numbering  upward  of  tif- 
tyfive  thousand  members. 

To  tills  must  be  added  over  100  Americaa 
Msociatiooj,  which  have  not  been  reported  dea* 
nicolv. 


21 
THE  ROMAN  CATHOLIC  COUNCIL  AT  ROME. 


"I 


1.— Th9  Eighteenth  Centenary  of 
the   Martyrdom  of  St.  Peter 
j  and  St.  PauL 

The  eighteenth  centenary  anniversary  of 
the  martyrdom  of  St.  Peter  and  St.  Paul  was 
the  occasion  of  calling  together  at  Rome  a  grand 
council  of  the  bishops  and  clergy.  The  osten- 
sible object  was  to  celeljrate  the  ceremonies  in 
honor  of  the  Holy  Apostles,  and  to  assist  in  the 
canonization  of  several  saints.  Five  hundred 
and  eighty-seven  Cardinals  and  Bishops,  as 
follows  :  Cardinal  Bishops  5,  Cardinal  Priests 
32,  Cardinal  Deacons  9,  Patriarchs  6,  Arch- 
bishops 95,  Bishops  420,  and  about  300  cler- 
gymen and  members  of  the  religious  orders, 
were  in  attendance. 

On  Tuesday,  the  25th  of  June,  the  Pope  re- 
ceived the  American  clergy.  The  archbishops 
of  Baltimore,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans.  Cincin- 
nati, and  the  bishop  of  Philadelphia,  twenty-two 
other  American  bishops  and  many  clergymen 
were  present  at  this  interview,  during  which 
the  Pope  took  occasion  to  spe:il£  very  warmly 
and  kindly  of  t-he  American  Minister,  General 
King,  and  to  especially  compliment  the  Ameri- 
can prelates  upon  the  result  of  their  recent  con- 
vention at  Baltimore. 

An  offering  of  $200,000  in  gold  was  present- 
ed, of  which  $60,000  was  offered  by  Archbishop 
Purcell,  of  Cincinnati,  on  behalf  of  the  Prov- 
ince of  Cincinnati,  and  a  part  of  this  in  a  gold 
model  of  a  yacht.  A  noteworthy  fact  in  the 
composition  of  the  convention  was  that  America 
sent  more  prelates  than  even  Catholic  Austria. 

On  ThursJay,  June  27th,  the  Pope  delivered 
■n  allocution  to  the  assembled  prelates,  in  the 
course  of  which  he  praised  their  great  zeal  in 
coming  to  Rome  from  such  distances,  and  thus 
evincing  their  attachment  and  devotional  obe- 
dience to  the  Holy  See.  He  said  that  the  exam- 
ple shown  to  the  world  by  the  union  of  tl:e 
church  at  large  in  its  celebration  of  the  canoni- 
zation of  several  new  saints  and  the  eigh- 
teenth centenary  anniversary  of  St.  Peter's 
martyrdom,  would  show  forth  to  the  enemies  of 
the  chair  of  Peter  the  immense  power  which  the 
Church  wields  on  earth. 

The  Pope  confirmed  the  condemnation  of  th« 
errors  of  theactof  December  8th,  1864.  He  also 
expressed  his  desire  to  convoke  at  an  early  day 
an  oecumenical  council,  with  a  view  to  delibe- 
rate on  the  best  means  of  repairing  the  eviJs 
which  oppress  the  Church. 

The  observances  of  the  celebration  prorjer 
commenced  on  the  evening  of  the  28th,  with  a 
general  illumination  of  the  city  of  Rome.  At 
seven  o'clock  the  next  morning  there  was  a 
grand  processfon  of  prelates,  priests,  monks, 
and  soldiers  from  the  Vatican,  to  St.  Peter's, 
The  Pope  was  carried  on  his  throne.  There  was 
an  immense  crowd  assembled  in  the  interior  of 
the  church  before  his  arrival.  St.  Peter's  was 
most  magnificently  decorated  with  cloths  of 
gold,  silver  tapestries,  paintings,  and  two  hun- 
dred thousand  yards  of  crimson  silk.  The  build- 
ing was  lighted  with  many  millions  of  wax  can- 
dles. There  were  one  hundred  thousand  people 
inside  its  walls,  including  the  ex-King  of  Na- 
plej,  the  foreign  Ministry,  five  hundred  cardi- 
nals, archbishops,  and  biihops,  and  many  thous- 
ands of  cler^'ymen,  lu-iests,  friars,  and  monks. 
There  Wsre  even  nuns  and  soldiers  from  almost 


every  country  in  the  world  present,  and  the  as- 
sembled multitude  made  up  a  most  brilliant 
congregation.  Pope  Pius  the  Ninth  celebrated 
the  Gregorian  mass  in  Latin  and  Greek.  Thera 
were  two  interruptions  to  the  ceremony.  The 
curtains  of  one  of  the  windows  of  the  church 
caught  fire  at  one  moment,  but  they  were  speed-  i 
ily  torn  down  by  the  guard,  and  no  damage  oo-  j 
curred.  After  this,  a  man  who  had  become  crazy  ' 
from  excitement,  produced  by  the  pomp,  and 
glitter,  and  lights,  cut  his  throat,  and  died  just 
under  the  bronze  statue  of  St.  Peter.  There  was 
no  confusion  in  consequence.  His  body  was 
quickly  removed  outside.  The  Pope  at  once 
proceeded  to  reconsecrate  the  church  stained  by 
the  blood  of  the  suicide,  and  then  proceeded 
with  the  service  of  the  altar.  Liszt  composed 
extra  music  for  the  Grand  Mass,  and  a  choed 
placed  on  the  dome  of  St.  Peter's  made  the  an- 
gelical responses,  the  cannon  of  the  Castle  San 
Angelo  thundering  forth  the  accompaniment. 

The  following  saints  were  canonized  ;  Bless- 
ed Johosaphat  Kuncevich,  Archbishop  ;  Blessed 
Peter  De  Arbues,  and  Nicholas  Vich,  with  18 
companions,  martyrs  ;  Blessed  Paul  of  the  Cross, 
passionist ;  Blessed  Leonard  of  Port  Maurice, 
Franciscan  confessors  ;  Blessed  Mary  Francis  of 
the  Wounds  of  our  Lord  ;  and  Blessed  Germana 
Cousin,  a  poor  shepherdess  virgin. 

The  place  of  honor  at  the  Pope's  right  hand, 
on  occasion  of  the  canonization,  was  occupied 
by  Archbishop  Purcell.  of  Cincinnati. 

The  Bishops  presented  an  address  to  the 
Pope  in  reply  to  his  allocution,  acknowledging 
the  courtesies  received  in  1862,  lauding  the  vir- 
tues of  Pius  IX.  and  his  fidelity  and  zeal  in  de- 
fending the  faith  against  error,  and  promising 
implicit  obedience  to  him  and  his  decrees.  It 
also  expresses  joy  at  the  Proclamation  of  the 
speedy  assembling  of  the  CEoumenical  Council, 
from  which  the  bishops  expect  abundant  fruit. 

This  address,  it  is  stated,  had  five  hundred 
and  thirty-seven  signatures.  The  bishops  of 
each  nation  held  a  special  meeting  for  appoint- 
iug  the  members  of  the  committee  charged  with 
drawing  up  the  Address.  In  this  committee, 
France  was  represented  by  four  bishops  ;  Aus- 
t.-ia,  Spain,  Italy,  North  America,  and  the  East 
by  three  each  ;  England,  Ireland,  Prussia,  by 
two  each ;  and  Belgium,  Holland,  Bavaria, 
Switzerland,  Portugal,  Brazil,  and  Mexico,  by 
one  each.  The  Eastern  bishops  in  the  commit- 
tee were  the  Patriarch  of  Jerusalem,  the  Arch- 
bishop Primate  of  the  Catholic  Armenians,  and. 
ft  Vicar  Apostolic  of  China. 

2. — The  Coining  General  Council 

The  Pope  has  named  a  congregation  of  sev- 
en Cardinals,  to  whom  he  has  entrusted  the  du- 
ty of  arranging  the  preliminaries  for  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Council  which  he  has  expressed  hla- 
intention  of  calling. 

3.— Councils  that  have  been  held. 

The  Catholic  Church  recognizes  nineteen' 
General  Councils,  the  first  of  which  was  that  of 
the  Apostles,  at  Jerusalem,  A.D.  50.    The  oth- 
ers were  held  as  follows  : 
1st  of  Nice,  in  Bythinia,  A.D.  325. 
1st  of  Constantinople,..     "     381. 
1st  of  Ephesus "    431.  ' 


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Chalceaon l.D,  451. 


2il  of  Constantinople.. . 
a  of  (Jonstantiuople... 
2(1  of  Nice 

'    553. 

'    680. 
•'    787. 

4th  of  Co!i.stai)tinoi)le.. 
4  councils  of  LatL'ran — 

){ame •  • .. 

1st  anil  2(1  of  Lyons.... 
Vieune,  in  DauphiDy... 

'•     869, 

'    1123,1139.1179,1215 
'     1215,  1274. 
•     1311. 

Constance A.I>.  1414. 

Basle .i.D  1431. 

Trent "     1515. 

The  couDcils  of  Pisa  in  14  9.  of  Florence  In 
1439,  and  the  fifth  of  the  I.atcran,  in  1512,  ars 
regarded  by  some  a  oecumenical.  'I'lie  confer- 
ence of  IS.'H,  when  the  (lfi;;ina  of  the  immasulatt 
conception  wan  proclaimed,  waji  uotau  cccumea- 
ical  cuuQCil. 


UNION  MOVEMENTS  IN  THE  CHRISTIAN  CHURCH. 


The  present  year  will  be  conspicuous  in  the 
history  of  the  Christian  Church  for  the  number 
and  earne?tiieS3  of  the  efforts  made  iu  all  parts 
of  the  Christian  world  for  promotiug  the  union 
of  denominations  heretofore  separated.  This 
movement  has  been  going  on  for  many  ye.ars,  and 
is  annually  increasin;^  in  magnitude  and  im- 
portance. In  no  previous  year  have  an  equal 
number  of  important  me^jtings  been  held,  hav- 
ing for  their  especial  object  the  promotion  of 
vnion.  V 

The  most  important  of  these  meetings  in  the 
Protestant  grou])  of  churches  was  the  fifth  oecu- 
menical assembly  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance 
at  Amsterdam.  The  interest  of  the  Protestant 
churches  in  the  object,  tiie  permanent  organiza- 
tion and  the  periodical  meetings  of  the  Alliance 
have  been  growing  slowly,  bat  steadily.  The 
meeting  of  Amsterdam  has  undoubtedly  at- 
tracted the  attention  of  the  churclies,  and  of  the 
world  generally,  to  a  targer  extent  than  any  of 
the  four  preceding'  ones,  and  gives  a  new  im- 
pulse to  the  qut'stion  hovv  to  secure  a  defjiitc 
and  permanent  organization.  The  alliance  dies 
not  aim  ut  abolishing  the  landmarks  which  stii 
arate  the  Christim  denoaii nations  from  each 
other,  but  at  bringing  to  the  cons3iomne?si  of 
the  churches  comm  mly  design^ited  by  the  col- 
lective name  of  evangelical,  the  fact  of  their 
union  in  the  matter  regarded  by  all  of  them  as 
essential.  The  Alliance  has  enli-ted  the  cor- 
dial sympathy  of  the  llethodists.  Baptists,  Con 
gregationalisis.  Presbyteriins,  and  the  '  evan 
gelical  "  or  Mow  church  "  parties  in  the  Angli 
can,  Lutheran,  Reformed  and  thi-  German  United 
Evangelical  churches,  beside  a  numbc-  of  sinaJI 
er  den  imi nations  ;  and  the  meeting  at  Annter- 
dam  has  mide  it  more  probable  than  ever  that 
this  attempt  to  consolidate  tlie  confederation  of 
all  these  bodies  on  one  c  immou  )>iaiform,  so  as 
to  represent  them  as  a  unit  a.ainst  the  Roman 
Citholic  and  Eastern  churches  and  the  "  Ili^'h 
Church"  and  '■Rationalistic"  schools  of  the  Pro- 
testani  Church,  will  be,  in  course  of  time,  en 
tirely  successful.  If  carried  through,  the  organ 
izatiou  is  likely  to  embrace  the  nnjority  of  the 
aggregate  membership  of  the  Protestant  church' 
es  of  the  world,  though  this  result  will  be  some- 
what contingent  upon  the  i^ae  of  the  di<sen- 
tions  in  th-^  Anglican  ami  the  Lutheran  denom- 
inations, two  of  the  largfst  divisiois  of  the  Pro- 
te.-tanl  world. 

The  movement  for  reducing  the  number  of 
Metholisl  and  Presbyterian  denominations  in 
this  C'lUiitry  Hnd  E.  gland  has  been  earnestly 
continued.  Definite  results  have  not  been  ub- 
tained  during  ilie  year;  on  th ;  conirarv,  the  ai 
tempted  fusion  o''  tie  Methidist  i'rolestant 
Church  and  tlie  American  Wesley  ins  and  that 
tf  the  Old  and  Xew  School  Presuyferians,  has 


for  the  present  failed.  The  movement,  howerer, 
is  actively  continued.  In  Scotland  a  union  of 
the  Presbyterian  churches,  except  the  Kstat>- 
lished  Church  seems  to  be  sure  of  speedy  con- 
summation. In  the  United  states  the  convoca- 
tion of  a  general  Pr<-~byterian  Convention,  em- 
bracing all  the  Presbyterian  denominations,  at 
Phil%del))hia,  in  November,  is  an  important 
union  movement.  Numerous  movements  of  the 
same  kind  have  been  made  iu  other  religious 
denominations. 

Among  the  Protestant  denominatiorts,  not 
included  under  the  head  of  Evangelical,  a 
movement  has  been  started  for  the  o iganization 
of"LiDeral  Christian  Unions."  'bus  far  it  is 
chiefly  the  Unitarians,  the  Universalists,  and 
the  C  iristian  Connection  in  this  cuntry  and  in 
England,  which  have  taken  part  in  the  move- 
ment, but  it  is  expected  that  ere  long  a  coopera- 
tion with  the  'Lioeral'"  (Rationalistic)  partiesof 
the  European  State  church  s  can  be  secured. 

Tlie  first  effort  ti  e>tabli>h  an  organic  union 
among  all  the  branches  of  the  Anglican  Com- 
mnnion  was  made  this  year  by  th-;  convocation 
&f  the  Pan-Anglic*n  Synod.  This  movement 
had  the  approval  of  nearlv  every  bishop  of  the 
Anglican  churches  ;  and  the  resolutions  which 
were  adopted  by  the  Syn  )d,  provide  for  the 
piiriodical  repetition  of  tliese  Synods,  Among 
the  bishops  of  the  Anglican  chu  ches.  the  opis- 
ion  on  the  desirability  of  these  gatherings  seems 
to  be  so  general  tnal  a  further  progress  toward 
the  permanent  establishment  of  "  Pan-Anglican 
Sy.iods  "  can  hardly  be  noub'ed.  With  the  suc- 
cess of  this  movement,  the  efforts  for  establish- 
ing a  closer  inlercooiinuni  m  with  the  Greek 
and  Eastern  churches,  which  has  already  re- 
i^dved  the  approb  itnm  nf  the  English  convoca- 
tions and  of  the  General  Convention  of  the  Uni- 
ted States,  will  naturally  assume  an  increased 
importance. 

The  •'  Radical  "  party  in  the  Unitarian  tfnd 
Universalist  chnrche- of  the  United  States,  en- 
deavor to  establi.-h  a  regular  md  permanent 
co6l)eration  with  the  Sid  itnalists.  Reformed 
./tiws,  Hicksite-i,  and  Prog  essive  Friends.  The 
first  convention  of  this  kind  was  held  in  1667. 

Many  of  the  Christian  chmches  co-.tinue  to 
be  greatly  agitated  bv  th;  strife  of  parties 
Widely  differing  in  Ihe  r  r-Ii^ious  views.  !■ 
the  Lutheran  l.hurch  of  the  Unic-d  States,  a 
number  of  Synods  wh  c)i  urgf  a  -trict  adhesion 
to  the  unaltered  Coiifes-i'ii  of  Uigsburg,  with- 
drew from  the  ■'  General  -yno  I  "  of  the  United 
States,  and  re-olved  to  estabi-h  a  new  "Gen- 
eral Council."  wiih  whi -h  a'so  some  of  the 
heretofore  inde]iemient  i^yn.ids  will  unite. 

In  the  Church  of  England  the  ipiiointment 
of  a  new  bi-hop  for  the  diocese  of  Nata  ,  in  Ihe 
place  of  Dr.  Coleuso,  completes  the  iieparation 


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which  has  aJready  existed  for  some  time  be- 
tween the  Anglican  Church  as  represented  by 
its  bishops,  and  the  followers  of  Colenso.  There 
is.  however,  no  prospect  of  a  loug  durati'm  of 
this  schism,  which,  if  not  sooner,  will  come  to 
ftn  end  by  tiie  death  of  Culeuao. 


Gerras  of  disruption  exist  in  a  number  of 
other  churches  in  this  country  aud  in  Europe, 
but  we  have  to  report  no  other  accomplished 
facts. 


THE  RELIGIOUS  SOCIETIES  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  AND  GREAT 

BRITAIN. 


The  following  is  a  summary  of  the  Receipts 
0f  the  chief  Religious  Societies  of  the  United 
States  and  Great  Britain  during  the  year  IStiti- 
67: 

I. — Araericau. 

1.  National  Societies. 
The  following  are  the  receipts  for  the  year 
einding  May,  1867,  of  the  American   Benevolent 
Sooieties  who<ie  headquarters  are  in  New  York  : 
American   Bible   Society — Sales 

and  rents $453,165 

Do. — Donations  and  legacies....  280,843 

734,089 

American  Tract  Society— Sales.  384,359 

Do. — Donations  and  legacies 159,660 

544,151 

American  Tract  Society  (of  Bos- 
ton)—Sales  91 ,273 

Do. — Donations  and  legacies....     44,192 

135,466 

American  Seamen's  Friend  Society 98,230 

American  Guuruiiui  Society 87,768 

American  Missionary  Association 253.000 

American  B.ard  Com.  Foreig-n  Missions.  448  090 
Methodist  Episcojjal  Missionary  Society.  060,000 
American  Church  Missionary  Society...  60, COO 
American  Home  Missionary  Society. .  ...  212,567 

American  .Sunday  School   Union 77,753 

Protestant  Episcopal  Board  DomesticMis- 

sions ._ , 123,273 

Protestant  Episcopal  Board  Foreign  Mis- 
sions     72,613 

American  and  Foreign  Christian  Union..  110,000 
American  and  Foreign  Bible  Society . ...    30. 719 

American  Baptist  Missionary  Union 190,994 

American  Baptist  Home  Missionary  Soo.  137,810 
American  Bapiist  Free  Missionary  Soc.  30,009 
Presbyterian  Board  F  .r.  Misions  (0.  S.)  207,526 
Presbyterian  Board  Dom.  Missions(0.  S.)  168,241 
P«-e-byteriau  Board  Church  Extensions 

W.S.) 35^870 

Presbyterian  Committee  Home  Missions 

_  (N,  S.) 128.503 

Presbyterian  Committee  Education  (N.S)  20,455 
Presbyterian  Com.  Publication  (N.  S.)..  13,325 
Board  For.  Missions  R-f.  Dutch  Church.  68  685 
Boaid  Dtim   Missions  Ref.  Dutch  Church.  21  589 

Katioual  Temperance  Society 26,692 

American  Freedmena  Union  Commission  50,000 

Total $4,766,69b 

2.   Local  Societies  in  !fiw  York  City. 

Ne-T  York- Association  for  the  Poor;   .   ..$51,643 

New  York  Sunday  School  Union 30,000 

A'ew   York    and   Brooklyn  Foreign  Mis- 
sionary Society 43  802 

New  Yorii  Children's  Aid  Society!!!!.'.!  93i577 


New  York  Juvenile  Asylum....  , 87.439 

New  York  City  Mission .  29,064 

New  York  Five  Koints  House  of  Industry  67.1S6 
New  York  Ladies'  Five  Points  Mission..    16,682 

New  York  Howard  Mission 26,000 

New  York  Female  Assistance  Society. . .  24,7^1 
New  York  L»dies'  Union  Aid  Society...     5,079 

New  York  Ladies'  Christian  Union 12.817 

Wilson  Industrial  Mission lo,6' 8 

New  York  Bible  Society 23,915 

New  Yorfc  Port  Society  .., 3l),0u0 

Union  Home  and  School 20,259 

Female  Benevolent  Society 8. 881* 

New  York  Prot.  Episcopal  City  Mission.   i6,8y9 

Methodist  Episcopal  City  Mission 31.853 

New  York  Prison  Association 13,250 

New  York  Soc.  for  Ruptured  &  Crippled  19,942 

New  York  Widows'  Society 13,165 

New  York  Nursery  and  Child's  Hospital  29,3!I4 
New  York  Half  Orphan  Asylum 15,776 

Tot»l $732,059 

n.— British. 

1.  Principal  Foreign  Missionary  Societies. 

Church  Missionary  Society £159,356 

Wesleyan  Missionary  Society 148,140 

Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gos- 
pel in  foreign  parts 91,186 

London  Missionary  Society 78  958 

Baptist  Missionary  Society 30,105 

South  American  Missionary  Society....       7*431 

Moravian  Missions   6.848 

English  Presbyterian  Missions 6,'  10 

Turkish  Missions-Aid  Society 2,838 

Total £522,482 

2.  Colonial,  Jewish,  and  other  Missions. 
London  Society  for  Promoting  Cristiani- 

ty  amonp  the  Jews £33,32T 

Colonial  Continental  Society 31,679 

United  Methodist  Churches,  (Home,  Co- 
lonial, and  Foreign) 9  664 

Primitive   Methodist   (Home    and   Colo- 
nial) Missions 9,557 

British  Society  lor  the  Propagation  of  the 

Gospel  among  the  Jews     7,140 

Colonial  Missionary  Society 3,042 

Evangelical  Continental  Society 2,455 

Foreign  Aid  So;;iety 2,424 

Total £98,688 

3,  Home  Missions. 

Church  Pastoral  Aid  Society £47,829 

Bishop  of  London's  Fund 41,090 

London  City  Mission 3o,495 


u 


Ad (TitionaT  Carates' Society 29,800 

Wesi cyan  Home  Missions 24,45!> 

Irish    Church   Missions   to    the    Roman 

Catholics .       .  22,507 

Church  of  England  Scripture  Readers' 

Association 12,354 

Army  Scripture  Readers'  Society 8,176 

Incorporated  Church  Building  Society..  7,72u 

Missions  to  Seamen 7,681 

Home  Missionary  Society  (CongregatioD- 

ali 7,541 

Protestant  Reformation  Society 4,727 

Baptist  and  Home  Missions 4.512 

Baptist  and  P'oreign  Sailors'  Society....  3.934 

Irish  Bvangelical  Society 2,633 

Midnight  Mi.<sion , 1,223 

Baptist  Building  Fund 1,140 

Royal  Navy  Scripture  Readers'  Society..  683 

Church  Home  Mission 683 

Ragged  Church  and  Chapel  Union 477 

Total , f264,e33 

4.  Religious  Educational  Societies. 

national  Education  Society £14,152 

IrKsh   Society  for  Education  of  Roman 

Catholics 10,055 

Christian  Vernacular  Education  Society 

forludia 6,345 

Wesleyan  Education  Committee 5,670 

Ragged  School  Union 4,714 

British  and  Foreign  School  Society  ....  3,669 

Congregational  Board  of  Kducation 3,017 

Loudon  Society  for  Teaching  the  Blind..  2,531 


Sunday  School  Union , 3^432 

Home  and  Colonial  School  Society 2,261 

Ciiurch  of  England  Sunday  School  In- 
stitute   8C6 


Total JtSS^a 

5.  Miscellaneous. 
Society  for  Promoting  Christian  Knowl- 
edge  £28,54/ 

Religious  Tract  Society 14,170 

Protestant  Alliance 1,821 

Naval  and  Military  Bible  Society 1,783 

fiihle  Translation  Society 1.552 

Lord's  Day  Observance  Society 1,417 

Prayer  Book  anci  Homily  Society 1,163 

Workingmen's  Lord's  Day  Rest  Assoc'n.  916 

Book  Society 459 


Total £51,819 

6.  Other  Societies. 

Operative  Jewish  Converts £  1,151 

Baptist  and  Foreign  School  .Society 13,583 

Church  of  England  Sunday  School  In- 
stitute    2,71 9 

National  Temperance  League 3,252 

Churcli  of  Kngland  Temperance  Society  268 

Trinitarian  Bible  Society 1,153 

British  Home  for  Incurables 6,007 


Total £28,733 

British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society £103,34& 


THE  PRESBYTERIAN  NATIONAL  UNION  CONVENTION. 


The  ministers  and  elders  from  the  various 
presbyteries  and  kindred  bodies  met  in  Con- 
rention  at  the  First  Reformed  Presbyterian 
Church,  Philadelphia,  on  November  6th.  The 
Convention  was  called  for  the  purpose  of  adopt- 
ing measures  looking  to  a  consolidation  of  th« 
different  branches  of  Presbyterians  into  one 
family.  Tlie  first  impulse  to  this  assembly  pro- 
ceeded from  the  General  Synod  of  the  Reformed 
Presbyterian  Church,  which,  at  its  late  meeting 
in  Philadelphia,  passed  a  resolution  to  invite 
the  several  Presbyterian  bodies  to  take  part  in 
such  a  meeting,  and  appointed  a  committee  to 
effect  arranv-emenis  for  the  calling  of  the  Con- 
vention. The  attendance  was  very  large,  there 
being  delegates  from  all  parts  of  the  Union  pre- 
sent. The  Convention  was  organized  by  the 
election  of  George  H.  Stuart,  Esq.,  as  Chairman, 
and  Rev.  Dr.  Archibald,  of  New  Jersey,  as  Sec- 
retary. Mr.  Stuart  addressed  the  members  of 
the  Convention,  welcomed  them  to  ihe  city,  and 
hailed  their  coming  as  the  harbinger  of  "better 
days  for  Zina,  This,  as  far  as  known,  was  the 
first  Convention  of  the  kind  ever  held.  He  be- 
lieved that  all  had  been  praying  for  the  union  of 
the  great  Presbyterian  family  in  America,  and 
that  measure  would  soon  be  effected.  Mr.  Stu- 
art read  a  lengthy  letter  from  a  number  of  Scot- 
tish I'resliytenan  clergymen,  favoring  the  union 
of  the  clinrclies. 

On  November  7th,  addresses  were  delivered 
by  Robert  Carter,  of  New  York,  Rev.  Mr.  Park, 
.nnd  Rev.  Mr.  Pratt,  favoring  the  union  of  the 
Presbyterian  churches,  and  advocating  a  grand 


cooperation  in  the  great  work  of  the  gospel. 
Rev.  Dr.  Cyrus  Dixon,  of  Baltimore,  said  that 
there  were  5,000  Presbyterian  churches.  6,300 
ministers,  and  700,000  communicants;  and  in  Re- 
formed Dutch  Church,  444  cliurches,  4G1  minis- 
ters, and  68,000  members.  There  are  embraced 
in  these  churches  four  millions  of  children.  He 
advocated  in  strong  language  the  union  desired 
by  the  Convention.  Trouliles,  he  feared,  were 
soon  to  be  felt  in  the  Church,  and  it  therefore  be- 
came necessary  that  the  whole  body  should  unite 
their  forces  against  the  evils  with  which  the 
Church  is  threatened. 

The  Committee  on  Credentials  reported  that 
there  were  181)  Old  School,  75  New  School,  2S 
United,  20  Reformed  Presbyterian,  5  Cumber- 
land, and  4  Reformed  Dutch  churches  repre- 
sented.   Total,  313. 

Rev.  Dr.  Eagleson,  chairman  of  the  comnrit- 
tee  to  prepare  and  report  a  bond  of  union,  to  bo 
submitted  for  consideration,  by  the  various 
branches  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  repre- 
sented in  the  Convention,  submitted  the  follow- 
ing: 

1.  An  acknowledgment  of  the  Scriptures  of 
the  Old  and  N«w  Testament  to  be  the  Word  of 
God. 

2.  That  in  the  United  Church  the  Westmin- 
ster Confession  of  Faith  shall  b:-  received  and 
adopted,  as  containing  the  system  of  doctrines 
taught  in  the  Holy  Scripture-. 

While  the  committee  recommend  the  fore- 
going basis  of  doctrine,  they  do  nol  wish  to  b« 
understood  as  impugning  the  orthodoxy  of  tl»e 


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Peiaelberg  Catechism,  and  the  candor  of  the 
Synod  of  Dort. 

3.  That  the  united  Church  shall  receive  and 
adopt  the  Presbyterian  form  of  church  govern- 
ment. 

4.  The  Book  of  Psalms,  which  is  a  divine 
Inspiration,  is  well  adapted  to  the  state  of  the 
church  in  all  ages  and  circumstances,  and 
should  be  used  in  social  worship  ;  but,  as  va- 
j'ious  collections  of  psalmody  are  used  in  the 
different  churches,  a  change  in  this  respect  shall 
not  be  required. 

5.  That  the  sessions  of  each  church  shall 
fcave  the  right  to  determine  who  shall  join  in 
communion  iu  the  particular  church  committed 
to  their  care. 

The  committee  recommended  the  adoption 
af  the  following  resolutions: 

1.  That  we  unite  in  requesting  our  respect- 
ive churches  in  their  supreme  judicatures  to 
appoints  committee  of  five  each,  which  shall 
constitute  a  joint  committee,  whose  duty  it  shall 
be  to  meet,  at  a  time  and  place  to  be  agreed  on, 
and  proceed  with  all  convenient  despatch  in  an 
attempt  to  form  a  basis  of  union,  according  to 
the  principles  of  this  report,  which  basis  they 
shall  submit  to  the  churches  for  their  consider- 
ation and  adoi)tion.  It  being  understood  that 
this  is  not  designed  to  interfere  with  the  exist- 
ing arrangements  for  reunion  between  two  of 
the  larger  bodies  represented  in  this  Conven- 
tion. 

2.  As  there  is  so  much  agreement  among  all 
the  churches  here  represented  in  all  essential 
matters  of  faith,  discipline,  and  order,  it  is  re- 
commended that  friendly  and  fraternal  inter- 
course be  cultivated  by  interchange  of  pulpits, 
by  fellowship  with  one  another  in  social  relig- 
ious meetings,  and  by  communion  with  each 
other  at  the  Lord's  table,  subject  to  the  regula- 
tions of  each  branch  of  the  church. 

3.  In  case  the  above  paper  should  be  adopt- 
ed, that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  lay  this 
action  of  the  Convention  before  the  highest  ju- 
dicatures of  the  various  branches  of  the  church 
here  represented. 

4.  That  the  members  of  this  Convention  who 
may  vote  for  the  foregoing  plan  of  union  to  be 
laid  before  the  churches,  shall  not  thereby  be 
regarded  as  being  committed  to  advocate  its 
adoption  when  laid  before  the  branches  of  the 
chnrch  respectively,  but  shall  be  free  to  act  ac- 
cording to  the  indications  of  Providence  at  the 
time. 

The  first  article  was  put,  and  carried 
On  the  second  article,  Eev.  H.  B.  Smith,  of 
Kew  York,  moved  to  amend  by  adding  the 
words,  "  It  being  understood  that  this  Confes- 
sion IS  received  in  the  historical,  that  is,  the 
Calvimstic  or  reformed  sense."  The  amend- 
ment was  agreed  to,  and  the  section  as  amended 
passed,  by  a  vote  of  four  in  favor,  to  one  against 


as  follows:  For  the  amendment,  Kev  School, 
Old  School,  United  Presbyterian,  and  Dutch 
Reformed.  Against  it.  Reformed  Presbyterian. 
Rev.  W.  AV.  Barr  moved  to  further  add  to  the 
section  the  words,  '•  with  the  larger  or  shorter 
catechism,"  which  was  lost,  two  churches  voting 
iu  its  favor— namely,  New  School  Presbyterian 
and  Reformed  Dutch  ;  and  three  against— najne- 
ly.Old  School,  United,  and  Reformed  Presbyte- 
rian. Upon  a  reconsideration,  the  amendment 
was  agreed  to.  The  delegation  of  the  Cumber- 
land Presbyterian  Church  declined  to  vote  ;  but 
when  their  right  to  sit  in  the  Convention,  unless 
they  took  part  in  the  vote,  was  questioned,  re- 
corded  their  vote  against  the  amendment  to  the 
second  section,  which  made  the  final  vote  four 
churches  in  favor  to  two  against. 

Section  three  was  adopted  without  amend- 
ment. 

To  section /our  Dr.  Eagleason  moved  the 
following  as  a  substitute  :  "  The  liook  of  Psalms, 
which  is  of  divine  inspiration,  is  well  adapted 
to  the  state  of  the  church  in  all  ages  and  cir- 
cumstances, and  should  be  used  in  the  worship 
of  God.  Therefore,  we  recommend  that  a  new 
and  faithful  version  of  the  Book  of  Psalms  be 
provided  as  soon  as  practicable.  But  inasmuch 
as  various  collections  of  psalmody  are  used  ia 
the  dilTerent  churches,  a  change  in  this  respect 
shall  not  be  required." 

The  fifth  article  was  laid  on  the  table. 
Of  the  resolutions,  the  first,  third,  and 
fourth  were  adopted. 
I  The  second  was  amended  so  as  to  read  :  "As 
there  is  so  much  agreement  among  all'  the 
churches  here  represented  in  all  essential  mat- 
ters of  faith,  discipline,  and  order,  it  is  recom- 
mended that  friendly  and  fraternal  intercourse 
be  cultivated,  by  interchange  of  pulpits,  by  fel- 
lowship with  one  another  in  social  religious 
meetings,  and  in  every  practicable  way." 

An  address  to  all  the  Presbyterian  church- 
es, defining  the  importance  of  the  action  of  the 
Convention,  and  requesting  all  interested  in  the 
subject  to  stand  by  the  union,  was  read.  It  met 
with  the  approbation  of  the  members. 

The  Convention  voted  by  Ckurchee,  and  ou 
the  adoption  of  the  Basis  as  a  whole,  the  final 
vote  stood  : 

Old  School,  unanimous. 
New  School,  unanimous. 
United  Presbyterian,  10  for,  and  !  against. 
Reformed  Presbyterian,  5  for  and  4  against 
Reformed  Dutch,  unanimous. 
Cumberland  Presbyterian,  declined  votiDir 
The   Report  was  declared  adopted  by  the 
Churches  voting  unanimously. 

The  only  delegate  from  the  South,  in  the 
Convention,  was  Professor  A.  D.  Hepburn  He 
appeared  with  credentials  of  his  appointment 
from  the  Presbyter/  of  Orange,  Sj^nod  of  North 
Carolina. 


1— National    Temperance    Society 
and  Publication  House. 

The  Principil    Temperance  Society  in  the 
Uaiiod  Slates  is  the  National  Temperance  Soci- 


TEMPERANCE. 


^iV"    .Ll^''^**'""  ^'"'^«'  '^'I'oh  was  organ- 

■  zed  m  1865.  State  societies  are  working  in  co- 
operation  with  it  in  New  York,  Connecticut, 
New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  New  Jersey.   Penn- 

h^»l?^!^-  k"*^'^"^'  ^^''^-  ^""^  au.viliary  societiea 
have  also  been  organized  in  the  cities  of  New- 


M 


York.  Brooklyn,  Philadelphia,  Detroit,  Dayton, 

Newark,  Chicago,  etc. 

It  is  in  friendly  communication  with  the 
?ons  of  Terai)erance  and  the  Good  Templars, 
which  tofjether  numlier  some  four  hundred 
thousand  members  and  six  thousand  Lodges  and 
Divisions.  A  society  auxiliary  to  ttris  society 
lias  been  formed  among  the  members  of  Con- 
gress; from  which  salutary  results  are  hoped. 
The  socieiy,  with  its  auxiliaries,  has  worked 
earnestly,  since  its  organizatinn,  to  revive  the 
cause  of  temperance  and  cultivate  the  senti- 
ment in  favor  of  it,  and  for  legislation  to  more 
effectually  repress  the  traffic  in  intoxicating 
drinks.  "  During  the  past  year,"  also  says  the 
report,  "  the  cause  of  temperance  for  the  chil- 
dren has  been  pressed  upon  the  attention  of  min- 
isters. Sabbath-school  teachers,  pai-ents,  and 
others,  with  more  than  usual  earnestness  and 
persistency,  and  with  the  most  gi-atifying  re- 
sults. Large  numbers  of  children  and  youth 
have  been  gathered  into  tlie  several  Bands  of 
Hope  and  juvenile  temperance  organizations, 
now  rapidly  multiplying  throughout  the  coun- 
try." 

The  receipts  of  the  society  for  the  year  end- 
ing April  30,  I8&7,  w-ere  $17,959.96,  and  from  all 
sources,  $32,489.55.  It  publishes  two  papers, 
ene  a  children's  paper,  the  joint  circulation  of 
which  is  41,000  copies  monthly,  and  the  aggre- 
gate circulation  549,000  copies  since  the  organi- 
sation of  the  society.  It  circulated  also  during 
the  year,  2,(556,000  pages  of  tracts,  and  2,8J6,000 
since  its  organization.  The  total  number  of  pa- 
ges— books,  papers,  and  tracts — published  since 
the  formation  of  the  society,  is  10,802,700. 
Eighteen  thousand  dollars  have  been  raised  to- 
wards a  $100,000  endowment  fund. 

2. — Sons  of  Temperance. 

The  tvrenty-fifth  anniversary  of  this  Order 
was  celebrated  this  year  on  the  30th  of  Sep^tem- 
ber,  with  ap-propriate  ceremonies  throughout 
the  United  States  and  the  Dominion  of  Canada. 
The  Order  was  instituted  September  29th,  1842. 
by  sixteen  men  in  the  city  of  New  York,  and 
has  extended  into  every  State  and  Territory  in 
the  Union,  and  the  British  provinces. 

During  the  twenty-five  years,  it  has  num- 
bered over  a  million  and  a  half  of  men  in  its 
ranks,  and  though  its  numl>ers  are  not  as  great 
now  as  at  some  former  periods,  it  has  been  so 
well  organized  and  disciplined  that  its  power 
for  good  to  the  cause  of  temperance  never  was 
greater  than  at  present. 

Lvdies  now  are  admitted  to  full  membership 
in  nearly  all  the  States.  Youths  of  both  se.\es 
of  fourteen  years  and  upward  are  permitted  to 
join. 

3. — United  Kingdom  Alliance. 

The  anniversary  of  this  society  was  held  at 
Manchester  on  the  22d  of  October.  The  report 
Biated  thav  the  work  of  the  Alliance  in  Scotland 
was  never  in  a  more  promi.^ing  condition  than 
at  the  present  moment.  In  Ireland  there  had 
been  an  unusually  active  and  healthy  agitation. 
In  London  there  had  been  a  series  of  demon- 
strations to  bring  the  principles  of  the  Alliance 
before  public  notice.  At  no  former  stage  of  the 
agitation  had  the  press  showed  greater  willing- 
ness to  r'-ceive  information.  At  the  meeting  of 
the  British  Association  at  Dundee,  and  at  the 
Suciil  Science  Cooigresa  at  Belfast,  t!ie  priaci- 


plesof  the  Alliance  had  been  ably  supported; 
and  the  questions  of  temperance  and  the  liquor 
traffic  had  arrested  the  a:tention  of  church  con* 
gresses  and  annual  conferences  of  religious  de- 
nominations. Among  collateral  eff  irts  had  been 
a  conference  of  influential  friends  of  teetotal  ism 
at  Exeter  Hall.  The  licensing  system  had  again 
forced  itself  on  the  attention  of  Ptirliament, 
Good  ri'Siilts  were  hoped  from  the  future  consid- 
eration in  Parliament  of  bills  to  regulate  public 
hou.ses,  &c.  The  committee  had  nothing  to  do 
with  the  Sunil.iy-sales  bill.  The  public-housa 
closing  acts  of  1864-5  had  worked  in  a  lienefici  il 
and  satisfactory  manner.  Efforts  had  been  made 
in  contested  elections  to  secure  the  return  of 
members  favorable  to  the  cause.  The  commit- 
tee had  received  several  suggestions  of  compro- 
mise, but  refused  to  be  influenced  by  them.  Of 
the  £5,000  five  years'  agitation  fund,  £1.500  have 
been  collected.  The  total  receipts  for  the  year 
were  £14.510.  The  present  condition  and  pros- 
pects of  the  Alliance  are  regarded  as  very  prom- 
ising. Resolutions  were  adopted  to  work  in  be- 
half of  temperance  with  the  new  voters  enfran- 
chised by  the  Reform  bill,  in  favor  of  medical 
treatment  of  patients  on  the  non-alcoholic  sys- 
tem, calling  upon  all  ptitiiotic,  moral,  ami  re- 
ligious men  to  aid  the  Alliance  in  its  efforts  to 
banish  iutemi)erance  from  the  land,  and  calling 
upon  the  government  to  deal  with  the  question. 
The  principal  speech  was  by  Archbishop 
Manning,  mover  of  the  third  resolution,  in  favor 
of  it.  Neal  Dow  and  William  L.  Garrison,  of 
the  United  States,  were  present  and  spoke. 

4. — Tlie  Temperance  Cause  on  the 
Continent  of  Einrope. 

The  following  is  a  summary  of  a  report  pre- 
sented by  the  Rev.  L.  Nippert  before  the  last 
•jession  of  the  German  and  Swiss  Methodist  Mis- 
sion Conference  : 

In  Prussia,  temperance  societies  have  exist- 
ed since  1837,  and  a  journal  (the  Monnhertei 
se<;eu  dm  Hranntiuein)  is  issued  by  two  of  them. 
The  Konigsberg  Society,  which  is  the  central 
point  of  all  the  temperance  operations  in  East- 
ern and  Western  Prussia,  has  published  for 
twenty-seven  years  the  organ  for  all  the  socie- 
ties of  those  parts  of  Prussia,  the  Rhine  prov- 
inces, and  Westphalia.  The  provinces  of  Posen, 
Poraerania,  and  Saxony,  are  influenced  by  the 
Herlin  Society.  In  Hanover  there  is  a  society 
which  publishes  its  paper,  and  throughout  the 
Kingdsin  (now  become  Prussian)  great  success 
has  crowned  tlie  efforts  of  the  advocates  of  tem- 
perance. In  Holland,  the  c;iuse  has  been  rap- 
idly progressing  for  twenty-live  years,  and  the 
most  distinguished  and  prominent  men  in  the 
country  are  identified  with  it.  In  England  and 
Scotland  there  are  over  one  hundred  societies, 
while  Father  Matthew's  labors  are  still  bearing 
good  fruit  in  Ireland.  In  Sweden,  King  Oscar 
abolished  all  the  distilleries  in  the  crown  lands, 
and  thereby,  within  the  space  of  twenty  years, 
the  one  huiulred  and  seventy  thousand  distil- 
leries have  been  reduced  to  only  two  hundre<U 
and  the  manufacture  of  fifty  million  quarts  of 
brandy  has  been  reduced  to  from  ten  to  fourteen 
millions.  In  Denmark,  the  priijcipal  pre<icher\ 
Visly,  )f  Storchediiiz,  Zealand  has  been  ca-ry- 
ing  on  the  battle  against  brandy  for  twentv-flve 
years;  yet  he  gets  but  little  sympathy,  since 
the  so-ci\lled  "believers"  stand  upai-ainft  h'ln, 
and  the  rolinseaclwitisticaJ.  pivriy  (wbicUislk* 


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High-Lutheran)  are  unanimous  in  their  opposi- 
tion to  the  clergy  takinj?  part  io  the  affair,  and 
Buch  clerjjymeu  as  show  auy  tavor  toward  tem- 
perance are  persecuted,  ealiimiiiated,and  charg- 
ed Willi  being  apostates  from  Glir.st.  In  Russia, 
where  drunkenness  abounds  to  an  alarming  ex- 
tent, there  have  been  at  least  some  successful 
«irort8  fur  it3  decrease,     la  Swiizerlaud,  where 


whole  cantons  are  now  in  danger  of  beinp:  mor- 
ally and  physically  ruined  by  drinking  brandy 
and  other  strong  liquors,  temperance  societies 
have  already  been  organized. 

All  these  societies  proclaim  war  against  dis- 
tilled liquors  alone,  and  da  not  touch  the  ques- 
tion of  beer  and  wine. 


NEW  YORK  SABBATH  COMMITTEE. 


The  New  York  Sabbath  Committee  was  or- 
gtinized  in  1857.  Its  object  is,  by  personal  in- 
fiueuje,  by  the  aid  of  the  pulpit  and  the  press, 
and  in  all  judicious,  prudent,  and  practicable 
methods,  to  promote  the  proper  observance  of 
the  Sabbath.  It  seeks  the  enforcement  of  the 
Sunday  laws,  and  the  enactment  of  new  ones, 
where  they  api>ear  to  be  necessary.  In  its 
prominent  movements  it  has  had  the  aid  of 
nearly  all  the  religious  and  many  of  the  secular 
journals  of  New  York.  The  result  of  its  U'liors 
are  thus  summed  up  :  *'  Information  gathered 
in  regard  to  the  Sunday  Laws  of  New  York,  and 
the  alarming  extent  of  Sabbath  desecration  ; 
the  suppression  ot  Sunday  desecration  in  the 
Central  Fark  :  of  Sunday  public  parades  and 
pageants  ;  of  Sunday  theatres  and  other  Sun- 
day nuisances;  protection  of  the  Sabbath  in- 
terest in  the  Army  and  Navy  during  the  war, 
culminating  in  the  issue  of  President  Lincoln's 
famous  Sabbath  Order  to  the  Army  and  Navy, 
in  1862  (this  order  was  prepared  by  the  Sabbath 
Committee,  and  adopted  by  the  President  as  his 
own);  the  National  Sabbath  Convention  at  Sar- 
atoga in  1(563  ;  nearly  lUO  sermons  on  Sunday 
observance  preached  by  the  Secretary  during 


1861  and  1866,  in  German  and  English  churches 
in  New  York  and  the  surrounding  cities  ;  seven 
Gorman  mass  meetings  in  New  York  and  vicin- 
ity, ill  favor  of  Sabbath  observance  ;  help  ta 
Sabbath  movements  in  other  States  and  in  Eu- 
rope, rendered  in  various  ways  ;  and  in  the 
suppression  of  the  Sunday  liquor  traffic  through 
the  Metropolitan  Excise  law  of  1856,  and  by  ob- 
taining decisions  of  the  Supreme  Court  and  the 
Court  of  Appeals  against  Sunday  theatres  and 
in  favor  of  the  Excise  law.  The  Excise  law  is 
the  crowning  triumph  of  the  cause  of  Sunday 
Observance.  It  has  been  well  enforced,  and 
with  perceptible  resul's  in  the  comfort  of  citi- 
zens, public  order,  and  the  dimihu'ion  of  crime 
and  arrests  on  Surj(:av.  The  evidence  of  offi- 
cial reports  on  this  subject  is  ilecisive."  Efforts 
similar  to  those  of  this  Committee  have  beeti 
made  in  other  cities  with  different  degrees  of 
success,  and  in  Europe,  where,  particularly  in 
Prussia  and  other  portions  of  Germany,  consid- 
erable progress  has  been  made  towanls  the 
adoption  of  the  American  idea  of  the  Sabbath. 
The  Committee,  during-.the  ten  years  of  its  ex- 
istence, has  published  and  circulated  34  origi- 
nal Sabbath  documents  and  other  works. 


RELIGIOUS  TRACT  SOCIETIES. 


3 — American  Tract  Society,  New 
York. 

During  the  year  126  new  publications  have 
been  stereotyped  or  electrotyped,  in  English, 
German,  Danish,  Swedish,  Italian,  Spanish, 
Portuguese,  Hawaiian,  and  the  Gilbert  Islands 
language,  of  which  37  are  VJluraes,  making  the 
whole  number  of  publications  on  the  Society's 
list  3,781.  of  wh  ch  765  are  volumes  of  larger  or 
smaller  size.  Forty-one  publications  have  been 
approved  to  be  issued  at  foreign  stations,  making 
the  whole  number  approved  for  publication 
abroad,  3,798,  of  which  5J3  are  volumes.  The 
three  periodicals  of  the  Society— the  Ajnrricnn 
M'ssenger,  the  Hotsckn/ter  iGermtin),  and  the 
Child's  fiiper—\\a,v^  an  aggregate  monthly  cir- 
culation of  502,tJ0l)  copies,  an. I  the  total  circuln- 
tion  of  the  three  for  the  year  has  been  6,t;y7,50U 
copies. 

The  total  receipts  for  the  year  have  been 
$515,131.13,  of  which  $159. 801)47  have  been  from 
donations  and  le.tacies,  and  $384,350.96.  The 
expenditures  were  $544,313  24. 

The  Society  have  realized  $57,0C0  of  a  sum 
of  $100,(100  which  they  are  trying  to  raise  from 
voluntary  contributions.      Two   hundred   and 


nineteen  colporteurs  have  been  employed,  in 
twenty-one  States  of  the  Union  and  the  British 
Provinces.  They  have  sold  and  given  away 
10,876,672  volumes,  addressed  public  meetings 
and  held  prayer-meetings  to  tflie  number  «( 
228.816,  conversed  or  prayed  with  5,034,990 
families,  and  paid  9, 59'. 657  family  visits. 

The  total  amount  of  publications  circulated 
since  the  forma;ion  of  the  Society  is  21,028,680 
volumes,  280,911,656  publications. 

The  Society  has  branches  or  agencies  at 
Bost(m,  Phila(le"lphia.  Rochester,  Richmond, Va., 
Cincinnati,  Chicago,  and  St.  Louis.  In  connec- 
tion with  the  Rochester  agency  six  coli)orteur3 
have  been  employeii  in  Canada  West,  who  have 
visited  about  7,000  families,  held  189  religious 
meetings,  and  circulated,  by  sale  and  grant, 
.$3,642.36  worth  of  publications.  The  Society 
has  expended  in  Canada,  during  nineteen  years, 
$42,303.78,  employed  167  colporteurs,  who  have 
made  223,617  family  visits,  and  distributed 
291,360  volumes. 

A  beginning  of  work  has  been  made  in  Mex- 
ico and  South  America. 

Ten  thousand  dollars  have  been  granted  to 
foreign  lands  f.>r  the  year.  The  total  of  cash 
grants  to  foreign  lanils,  since  the  or^'anizatioa 
of  the  Society,  is  $553,895.78.    Publication!  have 


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also  been  granted  to  foreign  lands  to  the  value 
of  $.1,501). 

The  foreign  work  of  the  Society  la  carried 
on  in  Franyu  (CDOperating  with  the  Paris  Relig- 
ious Tract  Society).  Italy,  Hxmbiug,  Denmark, 
Sweilen,  Turkey,  Syria,  E^ypt,  Wen  ami  Cen- 
tral Africa,  India,  China,  Micronesia,  &c.,  where 
it  cooperate.s  with  the  Missionary  and  other 
erangelical  societies. 

2.— American   Tract  Society,  Bos- 
ton. 

The  cash  receipts  of  this  Society,  from  all 
sources,  were  $l6ii,569.78.  Of  this,  $58,050.10 
were  from  donations,  $10,553.46  from  legacies. 
The  donations  were  greater,  and  the  legacies 
less,  than  last  year.  The  publications  of  the 
Society  were  :  Tracts,  in  the  12mo  series,  1.160,- 
600  copies  ;  envelope,  pocket,  and  children's 
tracts,  156,000;  leaflets,  etc,  234,000.  Total, 
J. 526,500  coi)ie.s,  embracing  6,235,008  pages. 
Volumes,  3^9,-50,  comprising  42,070,500  pages. 
and  papers,  3,103,0110  copies.  Tiie  Society's  cat- 
alogue now  numbers  851  publications  in  the 
English,  German,  Spanish,  and  Dakota  lan- 
guages. Tlie  whole  number  of  publications 
since  the  institution  of  the  Society,  in  1859,  is 
16,091.276  copies  of  books  and  tracts,  with  329.- 
844,200  pages,  and  24,541,700  copies  of  periodi- 
cals. The  vaiue  of  publications  granted  during 
the  year  was  $43,500,  $4,000  for  foreign  fields. 
The  work  of  the  Society  among  the  freed- 
men  is  particularly  worthy  of  notice.  It  has 
been  diligently  prosecuted,  with  most  encour- 
aging success.  The  general  work  is  carried  on 
throughout  the  United  States,  in  the  army  anil 
navy,  and  at  foreitiu  inissinu stitions.  The  work 
in  this  country  is  under  the  charge  of  ten  dis- 
trict secretaries.  Two  labor  in  the  New  Eng- 
land States,  one  in  New  York  New  Jersey',  and 
Pennsylvania,  one  is  located  at  Cleveland.  Ohio, 
three  in  Illinois,  Jlicliigan,  and  Wisconsin,  one 
in  Iowa  and  Minnesota,  and  one  among  the  freed- 
inen.  The  secretaryship  at  Memphis,  Tennes- 
see, was  vacant  at  the  time  of  the  last  annual 
meeting. 

The  subject  of  the  union  of  this  with  the 
Society  at  New  York,  is  under  consideration. 

3. — Religious   Tract   Society,    Lon- 
don. 

Receipts  for  the  year  ending  March  3Ist, 
J867.  £110,774,  19s.  3d.  Total  grants  £13,012, 
4s.  lid.  I'liljlication^  during  the  year,  at  home 
and  abroad,  46  720,101  ;  total  since  the  founda- 
tion of  the  Society.  1,193.11(10,000.  The  foreign 
Work  of  the  Society  is  i)rosecuteil  on  the  conti- 
Beut  of  Europe,  in  the  liritislk  colonies,  and  at 


nearly  all  points  where  there  are  Missionary 
stations, 

4.— Religious  Tract  Society,  Paria 

R-celpts  (to  Anril,   1816)   69,000  /rancs,  or' 
$19,000  in  gold.     Publicatioas.  347,  in  Spiiiish, 
German,  Italian,  and  Breton.     S  ties  40. 0;i0  co- 
pies.    Total  issues  since  foundation  (44  years). 
25,006,000. 

5.— O.her  Tract  Societies. 

[For  the  oper.atioDS  of  the  Tract  Society  of 
the  Methodist  Ejiiscopal  Chmch  in  the  Un  ted 
States,  see  Statistics  of  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church. 

For  an  account  of  Baptist  tracts  published 
in  the  United  States,  see  Statistics  of  Baptists.] 

Societies.  Expend- 

illli'63>         lSSU69 

English  Monthly  Tract  Soc....£2i,.'>5l  713  515 

Weekly                      "          "   ....  673  663,298 

Baptist  "  "     .   .         359,325 

Rel.  Tract  and  Book  Society  of 

Scotland 851, 61T 

Tract  Soc.  of  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church  (Geimaii  Branch, 

Bremen) 2,721  587,239 

Ui)per  Canada  Religious  Tract 

Society 219,611 

Relig'ous  Tract  Soc.  of  Pans...  1,781  400.000 

Basle  Christian  Book  Society..  ItsQ  

Prussian  Tract  Society iM'-i  137,3.)U 

Danish  Tract  Society  — ^  137, uot) 

6.— City  MLsslon  and  Tract  Soci- 
eties. 

New  York  City  Mission  and  Tract  Society. 
Receipts,  $60,000;  stations.  14;  missiona- 
ries 45.  who  made  118.277  visits  ;  voluntary  vis- 
itors, 539;  tracts  distributed,  1,076,779;  chil- 
dren led  to  Sunday  schools,  3,722  :  persons  in- 
duced to  attend  c'lurch,  10,u29. 

Brooklyn  City  Mission  and  Tract  Society. 
Receipts,  21,021.60.      Tv/onty   missionaries 
are  employed,   who  have  distributed   l,323,h3i 
pages  of  tracts,  made  36.474  vi-its,  and  induced 
1,148  children   to  attend   Siiodity   aud   publio 
schools,  and  1,179  to  attend  church 
Boston  Ciiy  Missinii. 
Missionaries,  21 ;  receipts,  $3  994.45  ;  visits 
44,247. 

Other  Societies  are  the  New  Jersey,  Phila- 
delphia, Ne Y  Brunswick,  Albany,  Tr.)y,  Utica, 
Syracuse,  Hilwaukie,  San  Francisco,  Sia. 


SUNDAY  SCHOOLS- 


1. — American  Sunday  School 
Union. 


I  day  Schools  of  an  undenominational  character. 

It  has  asonts  in  till  the  States,   whose  zenl  and 

success  are  well  represented  by  the  summary  of 

the  work  for  the  year  p  evioin  to  the  last  An- 

The  object  of  the  American  Sunday  School    niversary,  in  .May,  which  is  a-  f>lloyr3: 

ITnion,  which  is  now  in  the  forty-fourth  yuar  of  I  Schools  organized   1,671 

its  existence,  is  to  ostablish  and  carry  on  Sun-  I  Teachers  ia  the  same lU,55lt 


Scholars 67.204 

Schools  visited  and  addressed 6.(l91l 

Teachers  in  the  Bame 45.175 

Scholars 351,48j 

'Whole  Dumber  of  schools  organized 

anil  aided ..   7.761 

Teachers  in  service 55,734 

Scholars 418.6^y 

Families  visited   35.U'24 

Uiblesanil  Testaments  distributed. ..  9,8<:1 

Miles  traveled 314,41(1 

Grants  made  to  needy  Sunday-schools  $15, 331. U8 
Addresses  delivered 8,602 

The  receipts  of  the  Society  during  the  year, 
were  $lC)8,8:i:i.25.  The  whole  number  of  the  So- 
ciety's iiublicatioiis  exceeds  fif;een  hundred. 

The  following  is  an  exhibit  of  the  mission 
trork  of  the  Society  for  the  last  eleven  years  : 

New  schools  organized 18.983 

Teachers  enlisted 121.378 

Children  gathered  in 775,984 

Other  schools  visited  and  aided 33,441 

Children  in  attendance 1.545.4.S8 

Whole  number  of  cliiUIren 2.534,820 

Amount  granted  to  poor  schools $102,992.64 

The  usefulness  of  the  Society  is  indicated  by 
the  statement  in  its  last  report,  that  an  exiuni- 
nation  of  the  statistical  returns  of  the  several 
Slates,  where  a  Sunday-«chool  canvass  has  been 
made,  shows  that  in  no  State  are  one-half  of  the 
children  and  youth  regular  attendants  of  the 
Sabbath-school,  and  in  some  of  our  Western  and 
Southern  States  the  large  majority  are  beyond 
tie  reach  of  any  organized  church. 

2.— Sunday  School  Union  of  Eng- 
land. 

The  total  number  of  schools,  teachers,  and 


scholars  now  connected  with  the  Union,  are  as 

toUowa: 


9  Xfetrojwlitan  auxiliaries.    fi70     14,920  166,036 
162  Country  Unions 2,679    67,970  500,683 

Tot.il 3,869     82,890  660,719 

Increase  from  last  year...       26      1,175     12,924 

The  income  of  the  benevolent  fund  Cexclu- 
sive  (if  the  Continental  fund,  was  £2,432.  lis. 
2d.  The  subscriptions  to  the  Continental  fund 
were  £122.  Os.,  lid.  The  sales  at  the  Deposi- 
tory aniouutfd  to  £22,339  13s.,  4d.,  being  an  in- 
crease of  over  £700  from  last  year.  472  lending 
libraries  were  granted  to  schools  containing 
111  876  scholars,  of  whom  75.253  were  Scripture 
readers. 

The  Society  supports  ai-encies  in  Germany, 
Holland,  SwiiZtrlanu.  and  ntlier  points  on  the 
continent,  and  a>sists  the  Paris  Society  in  sup- 
porting a  mi^siouary  agent. 


3  — The  Continent  of  Europe. 

The  first  Sunday  School  in  France  was  foi  m- 
ed  at  Bordeaux  in  1815.  Koiv  there  are  874 
schools,  with  about  3,500  children. 

The  Sunday  School  movement  makes  pro- 
gress in  GL-rmaiiv.  There  are  now  10  schools  in 
Berlin,  with  3,-190  children  and  284  teachers, 
anil  31  in  other  parts  of  Germany,  with  2,74(5 
children  and  i:60  teachers. 


CENTENARY  OF  AMERICAN  rJETHODISM. 


T'^e  year  1866,  being  the  centenary,  or  hun- 
dredth anniversary  of  the  estnblishra'i'nt  of 
llelho.lism  in  the  United  States,  was  celebrated 
by  the  several  denominations  of  Methodists,  and 
particularly  by  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
by  extraordinary  exertions  to  raise  (uuds  for 
various  church  purpo.-^es,  and  for  the  endow- 
ment of  Biblical  .schools,  colleges,  and  acade- 
mies, and  for  local  objects.  Meetings  were  held 
in  all  the  churches,  and  subscrii)tions  taken. 
The  success  of  the  movement  was  truly  wonder- 
ful, and  exceeded  all  aiitici|iations. 

The  Gsnenil  Contereuce  of  the  Sfethodist 
Episcopal  Church,  at  its  ses.-ion  of  1864.  de- 
cided tliat  the  thank-offeiings  of  the  Church 
durini  the  centenary  year  should  be  divided 
Into  two  general  classes— Co-mectional  and 
Local.  The  connectional  objects  designated 
are  as  follows  : 

1.  The  Centenarv  Educational  Fund. 

2.  Tlic  G-irrett  Biblical  School  at  Evanstnn. 

3.  The  Meihod'st  Goi^eral  Bihlira!  Institute 
ftt  '^oncord,  to  be  removed  to  the  vicinity  of 
B..ston. 

'.'.  A  Biblical  Institu'.e  in  the  Eastern  Middle 
States. 

5.  A  Biblical  Institute  in  Cincinnati  or  vicin- 
ity. 


6.  A  Biblical  Institute  on  the  Pacific  coast. 

7.  The  erection  of  Centenary  Missionai  y  Build- 
ings for  the  Mission  House  at  New  York. 

8.  The  Irish  Connectional  Fund. 

9.  The  Biblical  School  at  Bremen.  Germany. 

10.  The  Chartered  Fund.  fSiich  sums  as  con- 
tributors may  desire  to  ajioropriate  in  that  way 
to  the  support-of  worn-out  preachers,  their  wid- 
ows and  orphans). 

11.  The  Sunday  School  Children's  Fund.  (A 
fund  to  he  raised  by  the  Sunday-school  children 
of  the  Church,  the  interest  of  which  should  be 
devoted  to  aiding  meritorious  Sumiay-scliool 
s<;holars  in  obtaining  a  more  advanced  educa-. 
tion.)  * 

It  was  decided  that  the  Local  Funds  should 
be  ai'propriaied  to  the  cause  of  education  and 
church  extension  under  the  direction  of  a  com- 
mittee, consisting  of  an  equal  number  of  min- 
isters and  laymen,  appointed  by  the  several  An- 
nual Conferences  within  the  bouuds  of  which 
they  are  raised. 

The  following  gentlemen  were  appointed  as 
a  "  Central  Centenary  (-'omniittee  "  :  J  M'Clin- 
toek,  D  D.,  D.  Curry,  D.D.,  G.  K.  Crooks  D  D., 
Oliver  Hoyt,  Esrj.,  James  Bishop,  Esr].,  C.  C. 
North,  Esq.     Rev.  W.  C.  Hoyt,  Secretary. 

The  reports  of  the  amounts  of  contributions 


90 


have  not  yet  (yovember,  1867,)  been  completed 
and  clasailii.-d.  Euou;,'!!  lias  buen  rcturai.-d, 
however,  to  give  au  approximate  idea  of  the 
ainouiita  that  have  been  realized,  and  the  pro- 
piM-iioiia  iu  which  they  will  be  applied  to  the 
various  <iesiguatud  objects. 

The  fullest  estimate  yet  given  appeared  in 
the  Methodist  of  November  "JSd.  The  returns 
from  which  the  aj-'gretates  were  cotnputed  were 
all  incomplete.  Hence  the  aggregates  cannot 
be  made  to  agree.  The  sums  given  will  in  all 
cases  be  exceeded  by  the  complete  returns 
when  they  are  made.  The  aggregates  as  given 
are  as  follows  : 

Grand  totals  from  45  Conferences.  $6,931,255.96 
Totals    for    conm-clional     objects, 

from  22  Conferences..   707,011.04 

Totals  for  loual  objects,   from  23 

Conferences 4,092,572.99 

SPECIFIC    OBJECTS  : 

Centenary  Kducation  fund,  18  Con- 
ferences   9.195.36 


Garrett  Biblical  Institute,  9  Conf.         11,428.22 

[To  tins  $1U0,0II0  of  the  contri- 
butions of  the  Xew  England 
Confereooe  should  be  added.] 

Drew  Theological  Iustitute,2  t'oiif.        500.016.00 

General  Ijildical  Institute  (at  iios- 

ton)    11,426  22 

New  York  Mission  House,  15  Conf.         68.9'  G  10 

Irish  Connectional  fund,  14  Conf..         29,768.53 

Biblical  School  iu  Germany,  12 
Conferences 1,675.00 

Chartered  fund.  15  Conferences. .  12,639.35 

Sunday-school  Children's  fund,  12 
Conferences 27,843.79 

Not  designated,  10  Conferences. . .  27,536.63 

Church  li;xcen>ion,  14  Conferences.    9,445,296.95 

Payment  of  Church  and  Far.>ouage 
debts,  7  Conf>.rences 212,575.27 

Colleges  and  t^chool.s,  and  local  ed- 
ucation, 17  Conferences 759,082.23 

Preachers'  Aid  SocieJes,  5  Conf.,  l.'),7'>4  20 

Uiher  objects  42,a33.::5 


CHURCH  AND  STATE.--PROGRESS  OF  RELIGIOUS  LIBERTY- 


Upon  the  establishment  of  independence, 
the  United  States  made  the  absolute  sejiaration 
of  Church  and  State,  and  the  legal  equality  of 
all  forms  of  religion,  one  of  their  fundamental 
institutions.  Thus,  a  new  principle  was  formally 
established  in  the  Protestant  world,  and  the 
history  of  this  principle  since  that  time  consti- 
tutes one  of  the  most  interesting  portions  of 
modern  Church  history.  Gieat  political  events, 
such  as  the  revolutionary  movements  of  1789, 
1830,  and  1818,  gave  ])Owerful  impulses  to  this 
movement  which  is  now  being  vigorously  car- 
ried on  throughout  Europe.  Progres  '.las  been 
made  in  every  country,  though  the  final  goal 
has  not  yet  been  attained. 

In  the  Uiiittd  Siafes  all  political  and  eccle- 
siastical parties  agree  that  the  right  of  every 
citizen  to  wor.ship  God  according  to  the  dictates 
of  his  own  con^^cience  shall  not  be  curtailed, 
and  that  the  voluntary  principle  in  church  af- 
fairs shall  be  maintained. 

Full  religious  ireeilom  also  exists  in  Ilrilish 
America,  although  the  ge|iaration  between 
church  and  state  is  not  yet  fully  carried  out. 

In  Latin  America,  the  Koinan  Catholic 
Church  is  almost  every  where  tlie'only  form  of 
religion  acknowledged  by  the  state.  But  full 
religious  lilierty  has  been  proclaimed  in  the 
United  States  of  Coiomhla  and  in  the  Kepublic 
of  Mexico,  and  will  undoubteilly  be  reinforced 
in  the  latter  country.  In  Chili,  in  1866,  and  in 
Peru,  in  1867,  the  enlargement  of  religious  tol- 
eration was  the  subject  of  a  very  animated  dis- 
cussion, which  materially  advanced  the  cause  of 
religious  freedom.  In  Brazil  and  the  Arseittine 
Ripuhli':,  religious  toleration  is  practically  es- 
tablished, and  the  number  of  Protestants  is  rap- 
idly increasing  in  consequence  of  a  steady  in-  j 
flux  of  emigrants  from  Northern  America  and 
from  Kurope.  I 

In  England,  the  per«onal  right  of  religious  I 
freedom  is  is  firmly  establi-hei!  and  as  generally  I 
acknowledged  as  in  the  United  States.  The  I 
State  Church  still  enjoyi  enormous  privileges;  j 
but  no  year  pa-ise.s  in  which  Parliament  does  not  i 
reduce,  or  at  least  assail,  these  iirivileges,  and 


in  which. not  some  progress  is  made  towards  the 
final  separation  of  Church  and  State. 

Hoitand  iiniX  lie^^ium  enjoy  full  liberty  of 
relii-'ion,  and  the  separation  between  Church 
and  State  is  nearly  accomplished. 

In  t'ranre  the  right  of  religious  opinion  is 
secured  to  the  individual  ;  but  religious  meet- 
ing suffer  from  a  restrictive  legislation,  as 
well  as  political  meetings,  and  th-  State  vigor- 
ously maintains  its  control  of  the  state  churcli- 
es,  denying,  in  particular,  to  the  Kclonneil 
Church  the  right  of  reorganizing  the  General 
Synod. 

In  Germany,  the  absorption  of  the  minor 
States  by  the  North  German  Confederation,  lia3 
put  an  end  to  the  persecution  to  which  many 
Christian  sects  were  exposed  in  some  of  the  mi- 
nor States.  Religious  toleration  is  making 
steady  progress;  public  opinion  strongly  ex- 
presses itself  in  favor  of  universal  religious 
liberty  ;  and  the  prospective  consoliilation  of  the 
Protestant  State  Cliurches  into  one,  will  bring, 
if  not  the  full  separation  between  Church  and 
State,  at  least  a  larger  degree  of  ecclesia-tical 
self-government.  In  Austria,  the  "  Keichs- 
rath  "  (Parliament)  was,  in  Ib67,  almost  a  unit 
in  demanding  the  abolition  of  the  Concordat  of 
1855,  which  secured  to  tlie  Knmau  Catholic 
Church  many  privileges,  and  in  asking  equality 
of  civil  rights  for  the  professors  pf  every  kiufl 
of  religious  belief.  The  Hungarian  Diet  ex- 
presse.i  views  equally  liberal. 

Denmark  is  in  pnssession  of  full  religious 
liberty,  and  the  separation  between  Church  and 
State  makes  progress.  Swden  has  repealed 
part  of  her  intolerant  legislation  again.-t  Cath- 
olics and  Btipti.sts  ;  and  Umitzer-and  is  becom- 
ing liberal  toward  the  Je\.  s. 

Itali/  firmly  adheres  to  the  independence  of 
the  Secular  government  in  the  regulation  of 
church  alfairs,  and  to  the  principle  of  reliL'ious 
freedom  :  and  some  of  her  leading  statesmen 
have  declared  for  the  absolute  separation  be- 
tween Church  and  State,  as  it  exists  iu  the  Uni- 
ted States. 

In  i'ortuga!,  public  op'nion  expresses  itself 


SI 


In  favor  of  religious  tolerafion,  but  Spnin  con- 
tinues to  lorbid  every  public  form  of  worship 
excejit  iMat  of  the  Komau  Catholic  Church. 

Kussta  still  ditgi-aces  herself  by  bloody 
edicts  of  persecutiou  against  Catholics;  al- 
tliuuyh  her  legislation  with  regard  to  Protest- 
ants has  become  somewhat  more  tolerant. 

The  Christian  tribes  of  2'ii  key  are  prepar- 
ing to  shake  otT  the  yuke  of  the  Mohammedans, 
but  they  deny  the  liberty  which  they  claim  for 
themselves  to  the  Jews,  who,  in  several  of  the 
Christian  provinces  of  Turkey,  have  snfifered  a 
terrible  persecutiou.     tn  K/iypt.  the  Coptic  Pa- 
triarch instituted  a  furious  persecution  against  I 
the  Protestant  American  Mls^iuuaries  and  their  j 
adherents  among   the  Copts.     For  a  long  time  , 
th«  Egyptian  g»veinuieut  encouraged  this  per- 1 


seou'ion,  until  at  lencth  the  Consul-General  of 
the  United  States  caused  it  to  be  stopped. 

Ill  Japan  the  government  severely  persecu- 
ted tlie  descendants  of  the  former  Christians, 
who,  in  consequence  of  the  friendly  relations 
now  existing  between  .Japan  and  ihf  Christian 
countries,  had  i bought  it  safe  to  shuiv-  their  re- 
ligious faith.  It  was  hoped  that  the  intiuence 
of  France  would  put  an  end  to  this  jiersecution. 
In  all  other  missionary  fields,  the  toleratiou  of 
the  native  Christians  was  not  disturbed. 

On  the  w  .,ole,  therefore,  it  may  be  said  that 
the  cause  of  religious  toleration  and  liberty  is 
I  a'iing  steady  progress,  and  that  the  time  seems 
to  draw  near  wlieu  religious  persecution  will 
beloni;  among  the  things  of  tte  piut. 


THE  CHURCH,  THE  SLAVERY  QUESTION,  AKD  THE  FLEEDM2W, 


1— American  Ciiurchea  North  anil 
South. 

In  consequence  of  the  different  views  en- 
tertained with  regard  to  slavery,  and  tlie  right 
of  church  and  state  to  pass  ordinances  for  its 
abolition,  a  split  gradually  arose  between  the 
churches  in  tlie  Northern  and  Southern  St-ctions 
01  the  United  States.  In  1844  the  great  division 
in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  occurred, 
and  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Chuich  South  was 
estaiiiished.  In  18  J  j.  the  Southern  Baptist  Con- 
vention w  13  organized,  and  in  1817  the  South- 
ern Baptist  Publication  Society.  In  1857,  the 
Southern  Presl^yteries  ot  the  New  School  Pres- 
byterian Church  organized  the  United  Synod  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church.  After  the  beginning 
of  the  war,  the  Soutiiern  Presbyteries  of  the 
Old  School  Presbyterian  Church,  the  Southern 
Dioceses  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
and  some  of  the  ."Southern  Synods  of  the  Luther- 
ans, effected  independent  Southern  organiza- 
tions. Where  no  formid  division  occurred  in  a 
church,  there  was,  of  course,  an  interruption 
ot  communication  between  the  Northern  and 
Southern  branches.  After  the  war.  a  movement 
begau  in  maijy  quarters  for  reuniting  the  ^ejla- 
raied  churches.  There  are  quite  a  number  of 
churches  who  are  now  fully  united  ;  such  are  the 
Pro  estant  Eoiscopal  Church,  the  Cuiiiberland 
Presbyterians,  the  German  Reformed  Church, 
the  Friends,  the  Swedenborgiuns,  and  the  Ro- 
man Catholics. 

There  is  another  class  of  religious  denom- 
inations which  before  the  war  had  hardly  any 
reiiresentation  in  the  former  slave  St:ite«j,  and 
which  since  then  have  begun  to  extend  south- 
ward, and  to  jirepare  for  the  establishment  of 
congregation>  .n  every  State  of  the  Uniop.  The 
aggregate  of  toe  new  congregation.s  of  these  de- 
noniiualions  in  the  former  slave  States  already 
represents  a  considerable  aggregate  of  mem- 
bers. Thus  the  Congregationalists,  who,  beside 
an  isolated  church  in  Charleston,  had,  in  1800, 
only  two  or  three  churches  in  Missouri,  have 
now,  in  the  latter  State  alone,  upward  of  forty 
churches,  ami  have  established  thesmselves  in 
all  the  large  cities  of  the  South.  The  United 
Brethren  in  Christ  have  established  new  con- 
ferences in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee.  The  Uni- 
teii  Presbyterians  have  organized  a  new  South- 


ern Presbytery,  and  the  Free  Will  Baptists  an  1 
others  now  .support  missions  in  several  States 
which  were  formerly  not  occupied  by  them. 

As  regards  fimiUy,  those  churches  which 
have  long  been  sejiarated  by  dilTei  eiice  of  views 
on  the  slavery  question,  they  have  all  begun, 
more  or  less,  to  outgrow  their  sectional  organi- 
zation, and  to  assume  national  dimensions.  It 
is  mostly  the  churches  of  the  Northern  section 
which  grow  southward  ;  though  also,  on  the 
other  hand,  the  Southern  churches  begin,  in 
some  instances,  to  exjiand  northward.  In  this 
respect,  the  greatest  progress  has  been  made  by 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Churidi.  In  1661),  the 
Southern  congregations  of  the  Methodist  E))is- 
copai  Church  were  mostly  scattered  at  a  short 
distance  from  the  boundary  line  between  North 
and  South,  in  Missouii,  Kentucky,  and  Mary- 
land ,  now  the  Church  has  a  firm  organization 
in  almost  every  Southern  Stale,  with  a  number 
of  new  Annual  Conferences  (  Virginia  ami  North 
Carolina,  South  Carolina,  Alabama  Georgia, 
Tennessee,  Mississippi)  aud  a  membership  of 
more  than  one  hundred  thousand,  mostly  white 
members. 

The  New  School  Presbyterian  Church  has 

_  reorganized  the  Synod  "f  Tennessee  with  three 

i  Prcsiiyteries  ;  while  Uie  Old-School  Church  has 

Presbyteries  fully  organized  in  North  Carolin.i, 

South  Carolina,  and  I'ennessee,  with  a  prospect 

of  additions  in  other  .'^tales. 

The    Southern   Methodist   Church,   on    the 
other  hand,   has   absorbed  a  part  of  the  Balti- 
more  Conference   of    the    Methodist   Episcopal 
Church.     It  has,  moreover,  organized,  in   I8I>7, 
I  an  Annual  Conference  in   Oregon  ("   Columbia 
I  Conference  "),  and  anotner  in  Illinois,   the  lat- 
I  ter  from  congregations  formerly  belonging  ta 
I  the  "Christian  Union,"  a  new  religious  denom- 
I  ination  established  since  Ihe  beginning  of  the 
!  war,  and  sympathizing  with  the  views  held  by 
■  the   Southern  churches  on  the  suliject  of  sla- 
I  very.     In  a  like  manner  the  Southern  Presby- 
I  terian   churches,   in    16()7,    received   additions 
from  Presbyteries  in  Maryland,  Kentucky,  and 
,  Missouri,    and    may    annex   others   even  more 
I  northward,  among  those  who  jirefer  the  position 
j  of   the  Southern  Presbyterian  Church  to  that 
1  of  the  Northern. 

j  A  large  portion  of  the  colored  population  of 

!  the  Southern  churches  has,  since  the  end  of  the 
I  war,    either   conuectei    itself   with   KurtUern 


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churches  or  joined  independent  African  church- 
es. The  African  Methoilist  Episcopal  Ctiurch, 
which,  in  18t)0,  reported  a  membership  of  ahout 
2U,(JO0,  now  claims  upwards  of  ViUU.OOO  mem- 
bers, the  additions  bein;;  almost  exclusively  in 
the  Southern  States.  The  African  Methotist 
Kpi.-<copal  Zion  Church  had,  in  1«6U,  only  b,OOU 
members,  which  have  now  increased  to  upwards 
of  oO,UUO.  The  Baptist  colored  churches  have 
in  many  States  been  organized  into  indepen- 
dent Associations,  and  annually  hold  a  Gen- 
eral Convention.  In  Georgia,  some  colored 
Presbyterian  churches  have  organized  them- 
selves into  an  independent  Presbytery,  and  tlie 
organization  of  a  colored  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  has  been  discussed.  In  Tennessee,  a 
colored  Conference  is  to  be  organized  in  con- 
nection with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
South. 

Thus,  while  a  part  of  colored  church  mem- 
bers remain  in  conueciion  with  the  Southern 
churches,  another  part  prefer  incorporation 
With  the  churches  of  the  North  ;  and  still  an- 
other part — as  far  as  we  can  judge,  by  far  the 
largest— deems  it  best  to  join  inUependtnt  col- 
ored church  organizations. 

2 Education  of  Freedmen. 

After  the  abolition  of  slavery  in  the  South- 
ern States,  nearly  all  the  American  churches, 
both  North  and  South,  paid  a  particular  care  to  I 
the  religious  instruction  of  the  Freedmen,  and 
many  of  them  have  organized  special  commit- 
tees on  Freedmen. 

The  fourth  Annual  Report  on  Schools  for 
Freedmen  was  made  on  July  1,  by  J.  M.  Alvord, 
General  Superintendent  of  Schools,  in  the  Bu- 
reau of  Refugees.  Freedmen,  and  Abandoned 
Lands.  We  learn  from  this  report  that  there 
are  officially  reported  1839  day  and  night 
schools;  20b7  teachers,  and  111,442  pupils; 
showing  an  increase  since  the  last  report  of 
632  schools,  ()57  teachers,  and  33,444  pupils. 

By  adding  industrial  schools,  and  those 
"  within  the  knowledge  of  the  superintendent," 
the  number  will  be  'J'JO?  schools,  2442  teachers, 
and  13u,735  pujiils  ;  making  a  total  increase  of 
U08  schools,  764  teachers,  and  40,222  i)upils. 

Sabbath- schools  also  show  much  larger 
numbers  during  the  past  six  months,  the  figures 
bring  1126  schools,  and  bO,t>47  pupils  ;  and  if  we 
add  tliose  '•  not  regularly  reported,"  the  whole 
number  of  Sabbath-sclxools  will  be  1468,  with 
105,766  pupils;  thus  giving  an  increase  since 
last  report  of  686  sciiools,  and  3i,176  pupils. 

TOTALS. 

Schools  of  all  kinds,  as  reported 3,(>95 

Pupils 23?, 345 

TOTAL  INCREASE  FOB  THE  LAST  SIX  MONTHS. 
Schools 1,503 

Pupils 76,t.38 

Of  the  above  schools,  10.''5  are  sustained 
wholly  or  in  part  by  the  fieedinen.  and  391  of 
the  buildings  in  wliich  these  schools  are  held 
are  owned  by  themselves.  699  of  the  teachers 
in  I  he  day  and  night  schools  are  colored,  and 
1388  while — a  small  jiroportionate  increase  of 
the  former  during  the  six  months. 

28,0t>8   colored    pupils   have   pr.id    tuition. 

The  average  amount  iier  month  being  $14,555, 

or  a  fraction  over  61  cents  per  scholar.     Only 

6911  of  the  pupils  wi're  free  before  the  war. 

This  iiureau  hus  supplied  fuurliuudred  and 


twenty-eight  of  the  school  buildings,  and  fur- 
nished nine  hundred  and  seventy  teachers  with 
transportation.  The  total  expenditure  for  all 
educational  purposes  by  the  Bureau  has  been 
$220,833.(11. 

The  following  is  an  incomplete  list  of  pa- 
pers published,  in  1867,  by  &nd  for  colored  peo- 
ple ; 

The  Elevator,  at  San  Francisco,  circulates 
2,300  copies  ;  Tke  Pacific  Appeal  ;  The  JSew  Or- 
leans  Tiibune,  daily  and  weekly,  circulates 
about  10,000  of  each  issue  ;  The  True  Commu- 
nicator, at  Baltimore  ;  Zion's  Stuiidard  and 
Weekly  Review,  published  at  New  York,  edited 
by  William  Howard  Day  (coloied;,  circulates 
4,000  copies  ;  The  Christian  Recorder,  Philadel- 
phia, published  by  the  African  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church,  and  edited  by  Rev.  James  Lynch, 
a  man  of  color,  circulates  5,000;  The  People's 
Journal,  Brooklyn,  edited  and  printed  by  a  col- 
ored man,  circulates  2,000,  and  the  freedman's 
Torchlight,  &\-e  both  published  by  the  African 
Colonization  Society;  The  Colored  Citizen,  is- 
sued at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  circulates  2,400  cop- 
ies, and  is  under  the  entire  control  of  colored 
men. 

3. — The  Paris  Anti-Slavery  Confer- 
ence. 

The  Anti-Slavery  Conference  convened  by 
the  Comite  Francais  d'  Emancipation,  the  Span- 
ish Abolitionist  Society,  and  the  British  and 
Foreign  Anti-Slavery  Society,  met  at  Paiis  on 
the  26th  and  27th  of  August,  1867.  M.  Labou- 
laye.  President  of  the  French  society,  presided. 
Delegates  were  present  from  the  United  States, 
Porto  Rico,  Brazil,  Hayti,  Liberia,  Sierra  Leone, 
Spain,  Great  Britain,  France,  the  South  Ameri- 
can Republics,  Russia,  Italy,  Jamaica,  &c.  Let- 
ters of  adhesion  were  also  read  from  sevoral 
members  of  the  British  .Parliament  and  other 
well-known  friends  of  the  Anti-Slavery  move- 
ment, at  home  and  abroad.  A  lesoluiion,  em- 
bodying several  arguments  based  on  what  is 
proven  by  experience,  was  read  by  Prof.  Horn, 
of  the  Ecole  de  Commerce,  urging  the  abolition 
of  the  slave-trade  and  slavery,  which  are  still 
practiced  by  Spain.  Portugal,  Brazil,  Tuikey, 
Egy;)t,  and  the  Transvaal  Republic,  South  .\f- 
rica,  besides  uncivilized  countries.  It  also  pro- 
posed an  address  to  the  Pope,  urging  him  to  fol- 
low the  example  of  his  predecessors,  and  raise 
his  Voice  in  favor  of  the  unhappy  slaves  held  in 
C.itholic  countries.  M.  Elise  Reclus,  of  the 
Revue  def  Deux  Mond'S,  proposed  also  a  series 
of  resolutions  denouncing  all  institutions,  laws, 
customs,  and  prejudices  growing  out  of  slavery, 
.•imoiig  those  who  spoke  on  the  resolutions  was 
Seiior  Bera/,a.  one  of  the  Spanish  delegates, 
who  asserted  that  the  Cubans  and  Porio  Ricans 
were  favorable  to  emancipation,  but  the  gov- 
ernment would  not  accede  to  the  demand  for  it ; 
and  Senor  Olozaga.  another  Spanish  delegate, 
who  said  that  heretofore  the  •■Spanish  govern- 
ment had  been  pressed  from  without  for  eman- 
cipation, but  that  now  the  pressure  came  from 
within,  from  the  colonies  themselves,  a  fact 
which  he  regarded  as  unprecedeoled  and  highly 
encouraging.  Bishop  Payne,  of  the  African  M, 
E.  Church  of  the  United  States,  sjioke  of  the 
results  of  emancipation  so  far  as  the  negroes  he- 
longi'  g  to  his  denomination  were  concerocii. 
An  address  was  delivered  also  by  William  Llovd 
Garrison,  of  the  United  States,   and    by  J.  G. 


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Palfrey.  M.  le  General  Dubois  gave  an  outline 
of  the  historj'  of  Hayti,  and  viniiioited  the  peo- 
ple calumniated  by  the  allegation  that  they  are 
iucompetent  of  self-government.  A  second  res- 
olution was  adopted  of  thanks  to  the  AlmiRhty 
for  emancipation  ia  the  United  States  and  lius- 


sla;  also  acknowledging  the  merits  of  states* 
men  and  philanthropists  who  have  contributed 
to  emancipation,  to  the  travelers  and  mission- 
aries who  are  explorinj;  and  evangelizing  Afri- 
ca, and  to  the  organs  of  the  press  of  all  coun- 
tries who  have  aided  anti-slavery  principlea. 


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THE  CHURCHES  AND  SECRET  SOCIETIES.-STATISTICS  OF  FREE- 
MASONRY. 


A  considerable  number  of  Christian  church- 
es forbid  their  members  to  join  secret  societies, 
and  this  question  continues  to  be  discu-sed  in 
the  church  assemblies  with  cunsiderable  anima- 
tion. This  prohibition  is  especially  directed 
against  the  Kree-Masons. 

Among  the  churches  which  vigorously  en- 
force the  prohibition  to  join  secret  societies  are 
the  American  Wesleyans  and  the  United  Breth- 
ren in  Christ.  When  the  former,  in  1866,  en- 
deavored to  form  a  union  with  the  Methodist 
Protestants,  the  non-concurrence  of  the  latier 
body  in  prohibitory  measwes  against  Freema- 
sonry was  one  of  the  reasons  why  the  union 
movement  proved  a  failure.  The  quadrennial 
General  Conference  of  thd  Wesleyan  Connec- 
tiiin,  in  1867,  by  an  overwhelming  majority,  re- 
affirmed its  ol'd  position  on  this  question.  The 
question  is  also  ap:itated  in  other  denominations; 
and  Some  Presbyteries.  Congregational  Confer- 
ences and  Lutheran  Synods  have,  in  1667,  taken 
decided  ground  against  Freemasonry. 

An  ''Anti-Secret  Society  Convention"  met 
at  Aurora,  111.,  on  Oct.  31.  The  Convention  con- 
sisted of  eightv  members,  from  five  differeMt 
State»,  representing  ten  evangelical  denomina- 
tions (Wesleyans,  United  Brethren  in  Christ, 
Free  Methodists,  Baptists,  Congregationalists, 
etc.)  Resolutions  were  adopted  declaring  the 
secret  orders  hostile,  in  their  nature,  to  the 
Chri.-tian  religion,  and  a  National  Convention 
of  Christians  was  resolved  on,  to  meet  some  time 
next  May. 

In  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  Free- Masons 
are  excommunicated  ;  and  the  present  Pope,  in 
1865,  issued  a  very  severe  encyclical  against 
the  society,  and  called  the  attention  of  the 
church  members  to  the  ecclesiastical  censures 
Incurred  by  all  Free- Masons.  But  numerous 
lodges  have,  nevertheless,  been  established  in 
all  the  Roman  Catholic  countries.  Only  Austria 
and  Spain  continued  to  conform  their  legislation 
to  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  But  in 
Austria  the  prohibition  was  repealed  in  1867. 
The  Spanish  government,  on  the  other  hand, 
tried  to  enforce  its  legislation  by  prosecuting 
the  members  of  the  lodges  in  Cuba,  in  which 
island  there  are  about  twenty  lodges. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  Grand  Lodges  of 
Freemasons  in  1866,  together  with  the  number 
of  affiliated  lodges,  as  far  as  the  same  was 
known : 

List  of  Grand  Lodges,  with  numbkb  o»  Affil> 

lATEO  LOOQBS,  IN  1866. 

1 .   United  States, 


Grand  Affiliated 

Lodges.  Lodges. 

Alabama 325 

Arkansas — 


Grand  Affiliated 

Lodges.  Lodges. 

California 163 

Colorado 7 


Grand.  Affliliated. 

New  Brunswick...  — 
New  Hampshire...   52 

New  Jersey 67 

■'  colored.  — 

New  York ...523 

"        city  col'd.     6 
North  Carolina....  — 

Ohio 318 

"    colored — 

Oregon 28 

Pennsylvania 174 

col'd.  21 
Rhode  Island  ....  16 
South  Carolina....  — • 

Tennessee — • 

Texas      109 

Vermont 63 

Virginia ^ 

Washington 10 

West  Virginia 9 

Wisconsin 127 

413:2 


Grand.  Affiliated. 

Colombia  13 

Cmnecticut 70 

Delaware 13 

■'       colored...     9 

Florida -- 

Georgia  .     . — 

Illinois 395 

Indiana   285 

Iowa 152 

Kansas 37 

KentucItLy 324 

Louisiana 128 

Maine 112 

Maryland 41 

"        colored  . .     6 

Massachusetts.   .   .143 

"  col'd.  — 

Michigan 169 

Minnesota — 

Mississippi — 

Missouri 229 

Nebraska — 

Nevada 8 

2.  In  Other  Countries, 

G.  L.  Toronto,  Canada 170 

G.  L.  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia -  ....     10 

G.  O.  Lima,  Peru 8 

G.  O.Val|>arai80.  Chili 4 

G.  0.  Rio  Janeiro,  Brazil 84 

G.  O.  Caracas,  Venezuela 15 

G.  L.  Montevideo,  Uruguay 97 

G.  L.  Buenos  Ayres,  Argentine  Republic...     — 

G.  L.  Santiago  de  Cuba — 

G.  L.  Port-au-Prince,  Hayti.... ".     — 

G.  L.  to  the  3  Globes,  Berlin,  Prussia 103 

N.  L.  Berlin,  Prussia 70 

Royal  York,  Berlin,  Prussia 29 

G.  L.  Hamburg 25 

G.  L.  Bayreuth,  Bavaria  , 13 

G.  L.  Dresden.  Saxony 17 

G.  L.  Frankfort  on  the  Main,  Prus3,la 10 

G.  L.  Hanover,  Prussia 22 

G.  L.  Darmstadt,  Hesse- Darmstadt 2 

6.  L.  Berne,  Switzerland 28 

G.  L.  London,  England 10^8 

G.L.Edinburgh.  Scotland 386 

G.  L.  Dublin,  Ireland 319 

G.  L.  the  Hague,  Holland 68 

5.  C.  Luxemburg,  Luxemburg 2 

G.  L.  Stockholm.  Sweden 19 

6.  L.  Copenhagen,  Denmark 5 

G.  L.  Brussels,  Belgium — 

S.C.        "  "        14 

G.  O.  Florence,  Italy 87 

G.  L.  Lisbon.  Portugal 1 

G.  O.  Paris,  France 248 

S.C.       "  "        10 

[G.  L.  stands  for  Grand  Lodge;  G.  0.  for 
Grand  Orii»nt;  S,  C.  for  Supreme  Council,  and 
N.  L.  for  National  Lodge.] 


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FOREIGN  MISSIONS, 


2.    The  Protestant  Missionary    So- 
cieties of  the  World. 

We  give  below  a  list  of  Protestant  missionary 
societies  «rith  the  year  of  their  foundation 
and  the  mission  fields  occupied  by  each. 
More  information  on  mogt  of  the  American  So- 
cielies,  may  be  found  un<ier  the  head  of  denom- 
inational statistics  ;  on  some  of  the  more  import- 
ant European  Societies  we  subjoin  a  statement  of 
their  operations  to  the  list  of  the  Societies. 
1. — American  Missionary  Societies. 

1.  The  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for 
Foreign  Missions.  1810.  East  Indies,  South  Africa, 
Turliey,  China,  Polynesia,  North  America. 

2.  The  Baptist  Missionary  Union.  1814.  Bur- 
Doah,  Farther-  India,  Siam,  China. 

3.  The  Methodist  Episcopal  Miss.  Soc.  1819. 
West  Africa,  India,  China,  North  and  South 
America,  Polynesia. 

4.  The  Episcopal  Board  of  Missions.  1820. 
North  America.  West  Africa,  China,  Japan. 

5.  the  Free- Will  Baptist  For.  Miss.  Sue.  1843. 
India. 

6  Ihe  Board  of  For.  Mi'S.  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  1837.  West  Africa,  India,  Siam,  China, 
Japan.  Morth  and  South  America. 

7.  Foreign  Mission  of  the  Keformed  Presby- 
terian Syood.     Syria. 

8.  Lutheran  Missionary  Society.  1837.  India, 
West  Africa. 

9.  Seventh-Day-Baptist  Miss.  Soc.  1842.  China. 

10.  American  Indian  Misa.  Association.  1612. 
North  America. 

11.  Tne  Baptist  Free  Miss.  Soc.  1843.  West 
Indies. 

12.  The  United  Presbyterian  Board  of  Miss- 
ions.   1844.    India,   Turitey,  Polynesia. 

13.  Mission  of  the  German  Lutheran  Synod  of 
Iowa  (?)  North  America 

14.  The  .Southern  Baptist  Convention  Board  of 
Miss.   1H45,  West  Africa,  China. 

15.  The  SouthTn  Methodist  For.  Miss.  1846.  I 
North  America,  China. 

16.  The  American  Miss.  Association.  lS4fi. 
North  America.  West  Indies.  Egypt,  Siam,  Poly- 
nesia. 

17.  The  Reformed  Protestant  Ditch  Church's 
For.  Miss.  1857.  India,  China,  .lapan. 

18.  Korei:-'n  Mission  of  United  Brethren  in 
Clirist.     Africa. 

19.  American  Church  Missionary  Society,  1859. 
U.  S.  ot  Columbia. 

20.  The  Board  of  Foreicn  Missions  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Nova  Scotia.  1848.  New 
Hebrides. 

21.  Tiie  Micmac  Missionary  Society.  Nova 
Scotia, 

2. —  British  Missionary  Societies. 

22.  Society  fw  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel 
In  Koieijn  Parts.  1701.  Kast  and  West  Indies, 
Soutli  Africa,  Australia,  New  Zealand,  North 
Americ.i. 

2H.  Tba  Baptist  Miss.  Soc.  1792,  East  and 
West  In.lies,  West  Africa,  China. 

24  Tiue  l.onlon  Mi.ss.  S<ic.  1795.  South  Sea 
E>ist  and  W'  st  Indies,  South  Africa,  Madagascar. 

25.  Tlie  Church  Miss.  Soc.  180(1.  East  and  West 
In'iies,  Turkey,  China,  New  Zealand,  West  Africa, 
UaunUus,  Madagascar,  North  America. 


26.  The  General  Baptist  Miss.  Soc.  1816.  East 
Indies.  China. 

27.  The  Wesleyan  i Methodist)  Mis*.  .Soc.  1817. 
East  and  West  "indies.  West  an  I  .South  Africa, 
China,  Australia.  Polynesia.  North  America. 

28.  E-itabli.sHed  Church  rif  Scoilands  Foreign 
Miss.  1824.  East  Indies.  (£55  5,13  missionaries, 
116  native  agents,  5  statinns,  250  communicants.) 

29.  Society  for  promoting  Female  Educalioa 
in  the  East.     1834. 

30.  Welsh  Foreign  Miss.  Soc.  1840.  East  In- 
dies (Silbeti. 

31.  Tlie  Irish  Presbyterian  Church's  For.  Miss. 
1840.  East  Indies.  (Gu^jerat).  Syria.  (7  mission- 
aries, 6  stations,  3il0  communicants.) 

32.  The  Edinburgh  Medicil  Miss.  Soc.  1811. 

33.  The  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church's  Far. 
Miss.  1842.  New  Hebrides. 

34.  The  Free  durch  of  Scotland's  For.  Miss. 
1843.  East  Indies,  South  Africa.  (£15,751.  22 
missionaries,  70  stations,  144  native  agents). 

35.  The  English  Hresbyteiian  For.  Miss.  1844. 
China.  East  Indies.     (£3907.     107  missionaries.) 

36.  The  South  American  (Patagonian)  Miss. 
Soc.  1844.  Soutli  America.      (£7132.  10  stations.) 

37.  The  United  IVesbyterian  Cn#rcli's  For. 
Miss.  1847.  East  and  West  Indies.  West  and 
South  Africa,  (£21,296.  28  mi^9ionaries,  121 
native  agents,  740 communicants). 

38.  The  Chinese  Evangelization  Poo.  1850. 
China. 

39.  The  Primitive  Methodist  Miss.  Soc.  1858. 

39.  The  Free  United  Methodist  Miss.  Soc.  1860. 
East  and  West  Afi  ica. 

40.  The  Moslem  Miss.  Soc.  1860.  Syria,  Egypt. 
(£2623.   120  native  agents.) 

41    The   Universities    Miss.  Soc.  1861.      East 
Africa. 
42.  The  Foreign  Evangelist  Soc.  1864.  (£1890). 

44,  Methodist  New  Connexion  Missionary  So- 
ciety. 

45,  Foreign  Aid  Society.  (£2002,  3s  8d,) 

46,  Evangelical  ConUnental  Society  (£2406 
23  8d.  ; 

3. — German  Missionary  Societies, 

AT.  Mission  of  the  Evangelical  Moravian  Broth- 
erhood. 1732.  Greenland,  I>il>;aior,  .N'nrth 
America,  West  Indies,  South  Africa,  Australia. 
Thibet. 

4b.  Evang.  Miss,  at  Bale.  1815.  West  Africa, 
Inlia,  China. 

49.  .'Society  for  the  Advaicement  of  Evangelic- 
al Missions  at.  Berlin.  1823.  South  Africa. 
(£7421). 

5(1.  Rhenish  Miss.  Soc.  at  Barmen.  1828.  South 
Africa,  Holland,  Ea<t  Indies,  Cliina. 

51.  North  (ier.  Hiss.  Soc.  of  Bremen.  1835. 
West  Africa,  New  Zealand.  (£3707.  29  agents, 
28  stations.) 

52.  Evangelical  Lutheran  Missionary  Society. 
of  Leiimc.  1836.  India.     (£1477). 

53.  Gossner's  Eva' gelical  Missionary  Union  of 
Berlio.  1?42.  Farth  T  In  la,  Holland,  India, 
Australia,      (£4175.  4  .\lis^io^aries.) 

54.  Berlin  Woman's  Missions  for  China.  1852 
China.     (£857    4  Missionaries.) 

55.  Berlin  Man's  Union  for  China.  1852.  Chin* 
(£771.  1  aeent.) 

56.  llerinannsbiirg  Missionary  Society,  1854, 
South  Afiica,  India.     (31  missionaries  )' 


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57.  Pilgrim's  Mission  of  St.  Erischona  near 
Bale— Palestine,  Abyssinia. 

58.  Kaiserswertli  Deaconesses  Institute.  Asia 
Minor,  Syria,  Kgypt. 

59.  Jerusalem  Union  at  Berlin.  Asia  Minor 
Syria,  Egypt.     (£953.) 

4. — Dutch  Missionary  Societiet. 

60.  Netherland  Missionary  Society  at  Rotter' 
dam.  17M7.  Ambon.  Miuahassa,  South  Celebes, 
Java.  (£6926.  24  missionaries.) 

61.  Ihe  Java  Society  at  Amsterdam.  1854. 
Java,  Sumatra.     (£S35.  7  missionaries.) 

62.  Tlie  Ermeloer  Missionary  Society.  1854. 
Talaut  Islands. 

63.  Mission  of  the  Separatist  Reformed XJhurch 
at  Kampen.   1837.  Surinam,  Orange  Kepubic. 

64.  Tlie  Xetherland  Miasiona'-y  Society.  Rotter- 
dam. 1859.  Sava.     (£1930.  5  Missionaries  ) 

68.  The  Uirecht  Missionary  Society,  1859.  New 
Guinea,  Bali.     (£'2666.  12  missionaries  ) 

66.  The  Xetheriaiid  Reformed  Missionary  So- 
ciety. Amsterdam.  1859.  Java.  (16  mission- 
aries.) 

67  Mennonite  Association  for  the  Diffusion  of 
the  G;)spel  in  the  Dutch  Maritime  Possessions  at 
Amsterdam. 

68.  Java.    The  China  Society. 

69.  Netlierlaud  Auxiliary  Miss.  Soc.  atBatavia. 
(£835.  7  missionaries  ) 

70.  Netlierland  Society  for  Israel. 
5. — Scandinavian  Missionary  Societiet. 

71.  Swedish  .Mis«;ionary  Society  of  Stockholm. 
18:i7.     E .'stern  Alrica. 

72.  Missionary  Society  of  Lund  for  China, 
1852. 

73.  Missionary  Institute  of  the  Evangelical 
Fatherland's  Foundation  of  Stockholm.  IboO. 

74.  Missionary  Society  of  Goreborj;'. 

75.  Tlie  N'"rie  Missionary  Society  of  Stavanger. 
1842.     South  Africa. 

76.  The  Di'nish  Missionary  Society  of  Copen- 
hagen.    1821.     India.     (fStiQ.) 

77.  Finnish  Missionary  Society  of  Helsingfors. 
1861. 

6. — French  Missionary  Societies. 

78.  Society  of  Evangelical  Missions.  Paris. 
1824.  South  Africa,  Senegamljia,  Polynesia. 
(£8239  ) 

7.—  Colonial  Misnonary  Societies. 

79.  The  Refiirmed  Churcli  ilission  to  the  Cape" 
Capstadt.     1861.  South  Africa. 

80.  Society  of  Internal  and  External  Missions. 
Batavia,  1851.     Holland,  India. 

81.  Presbyterian  Missionary  Society.  Mel- 
bourne. (?)  Au.ftralia. 

82.  Melanesian  Miss.  Soc.  (?)  at  Aukland, 
18fil.  Melanesia. 

83.  i/awaiian  Missionary  Society  at  Honolulu. 
Micronesia,  Marquesas  Islands. 

84.  Jamaica  Bapti^t  Miss.  Soc.  {?). 

85.  West  Indian  Missionary  Board.  West.ifrica. 

86.  Palestine  Christian  Union  Mission  to 
Arabs.     (1  agent). 

The  following  is  a  fuller  statement  of  the  oper- 
ations of  some  of  the  larger  sorieiies. 
Amtrtca7i  Board  of  Comtnissiouers   of  Fortign 
Mmsions. 

The  income  for  the  year  has  been  as  follows  : 
From  dnnations,  $350,172  08 ;  fiom  leiracies. 
■$74,428  44;  from  other  sources,  $12,783  25— mak- 
ing a  tutal  of  $437  8H4  77.     There  was  a  balance 


ia  favor  of  the   treasury  September  1st,  1866,  of  I  missions, 


$6,20107.  Now  there  is  a  balance  against  it  of 
$4,432  34. 

The  number  of  foreign  missions  established, 
including  station.^  and  out-stations,  are  604  ;  the 
wiiole  number  of  laborers  employed,  including 
natives,  pliysicians,  and  ordained  missionaries. 
1204.  The  Secretary  reports  as  the  number  of 
foreign  churches  under  the  Board's  control,  205; 
the  number  of  church  members,  as  far  as  report- 
ed, 25,502;  added  during  tlie  year,  1447. 

The  Prudential  Committee,  in  their  report,  asit 
for  eighteen  new  missionaries,  three  missionary 
physicians  to  reenfnrce  the  stations  already  oc- 
cupied, and  for  forty  new  mi.-sionaries  to  be  for- 
warded to  a  new  field,  making  sixiy-one,  which 
tliey  request  to  be  sent  without  delay. 

The  approjuiatious  for  the  coming  year  have 
been  fi.xed  at  $525,000.  The  Prudential  Com- 
mittee in  their  report  lay  especial  stress  upon 
the  importance  of  the  Chinese  mission. 

(English)  Baptist  Missionary  Society. 

The  receipts  of  the  Baptist  Missionary  Society 
were  £30,104  83  Id,  somewhat  in  advance  of 
those  of  last  year.  They  liave  been  exceeded  by 
the  expenditures,  wliich  have  been  increased 
chiefly  because  of  the  advance  of  the  prices  ii"( 
Jiving  in  India.  The  society  publishes  three 
periodicals,  two  monthly,  and  one  quarterly. 

The  mission  stations,  etc..  are  as  follows:  India. 

4  stations,  9  English  missionaries  and  assistants, 

5  natives;  Bengal,  6*  stations,  18  En-glish,  98 
natives;  Northern  India,  14  stations,  II  English 
61  natives  ;  Southern  India,  2  .-tations  ;  China,  3 
stations,  2  English,  6  natives;  Ce.vlon,  57  stations. 
and  sub-stations,  3  English,  17  assistants  ;  West 
ludiej,  6  missions.  2  missixiaries,  6  assistants; 
Baliamas,  42  stations,  2  missionaries,  71  assist- 
ants ;  Haiti,  26  stations,  2  missionaries,  7  assist- 
ants and  Bible  readers ;  Jamaica,  I  mission,  3 
missiDuaries;  We>tern  Africa,  9  stations,  5  miss- 
i'lniries  ;  6  assistants  ;  France,  9  stations,  3 
missionaries,  6  assistants  and  teachers;  Norway, 
1  station  and  1  missionary. 

The  returns  from  the  stations  were  so  imper- 
fect that  no  statistics  were  given.  The  rcoort  of 
the  previous  year  gave  17,177  as  the  number  of 
nominal  christians  connected   with  the  missions. 

London  Missionary  Society. 

The  London  Missionary  Society  is  principally 
sustaineci  by  the  Independents,  or  Congrei.'ation- 
alists.  The  receipts  of  the  Society  fur  the  year 
were  £105,090  10s  4d.  Tiie  total  income  sfthe 
Society  since  its  institution  in  i6U5.  has  been 
£3,255,193.  Several  of  the  mission  churches 
under  the  care  of  the  Society  have  contributed 
liberally  to  the  spreail  of  the  Gospel.  Collections 
have  been  made  on  a  large  scale  in  the  West 
Indies.  So  nth  Africa,  and  South  Seas.  The  total 
foreign  contributions  for  several  years  have 
amounted  to  £15.000  a  year.  Of  total  contribut- 
ions from  abroad  during  the  last  year  about 
£9000  were  o£fe  ings  of  native  churches  todirect- 
ly  religious  oiijects.  Among  other  specific  items 
of  their  year's  work,  the  Society  calls  attention 
to  the  fact  that  in  Cliiua  they  liave  held  7000 
religious  services,  instructed  170  therflogical 
studen's,  and  40.000  children,  and  exercised 
pastoral  care  of  congregations  with  26,01J(l  mem- 
bers and  150,000  people.  Two  of  the  missionaries 
starting  from  Tientsin,  undertook  a,  journey  of 
1700  mile-i  into  the  interior  of  North  (.  hini. 
The  followiDj:  are  the  statis  ics  of  tlie  Society'! 


8(r 


rf  i  at. 

Missions.  I  I  III 

S  ^  "> 

China 19  1,248  214 

North  India 1»  205  754 

Southlndia 24  841  1,746 

Travancore 8  1,876  6,783 

Madagascar  and   Mau- 
ritius  13  4,54.  850 

South  Africa 35  4,642  2.161 

West  Indies 16  4,798  2,285 

Polynesia 27  9.3-Jl  10,541 

Total 161  27,562  24,334 

There  are  also  connected  with  the  missions  12|) 
native  ordained  pastors  and  missionaries,  590 
Kvangelists,  Colporteurs,  and  readers,  (and 
mostly  in  the  Indian  missions),  134  boys  in  board- 
ing schools,  33J7  boys  in  the  Anglo  Vernacular 
schools,  2823  girls  in  the  day  schools,  445  girls 
in  the  boarding-schools,  and  70  women  (in  the 
North  Indian  mission).  The  South  Sea  missions 
have  contributed  £2650  to  the  mission  funds,  the 
China  missions,  £1.615,  North  India,  £2521,  South 
India,  £3269,  South  Africa,  £797,  Demarara, 
£1689,  Eerbice,  £1944,  and  Jamaica,  £2089.  The 
total  number  of  native  local  assistants,  if  they 
could  be  ascertained,  is  supposed  to  be  about 
1400.  The  Society  publishes  a  monthly  Chronicle 
of  its  work.  It  has  10  theological  institutions, 
in  the  Eastern  and  South  Sea  missions,  and 
classes  have  been  formed  in  Savage  Island  and 
the  Loyalty  Group.  The  total  number  of  students 
is  170,  of  whom  60  are  in  India,  and  108  in  the 
South  Seas. 

Church  Missionary  Society. 
The  receipts  of  the  Church  Missionary  Society 
for  its  68th  year,  16e6-'67,  were  £150,365  5s  lud. 
a  decided  advance  over  the  receipts  of  the  pre- 
vious year,  as  those  were  over  those  of  the  year 
before.  Of  the  rect-ipts,  £4000  came  in  the  form 
of  an  anonymous  donation  for  a  mission  to  Japan, 
whicli  being  deducted,  leaves  the  ordinary 
general  income  £146.386  5s  lOd.  The  expend- 
itures were  £5477  18s  4d  aibove  this,  and  swal- 
lowed up  more  than  the  surplus  from  the  pre- 
vious year.  The  publications  of  the  Society  con- 
sisting of  Bibles  and  numerous  works  suitable  to 
its  objects,  are  issued  in  the  English,  Arabic, 
Armenian,  GreeK,  Italian,  Maltese,  Persian, 
Turkish,  Armeno-Turkish,  Chinese,  and  New 
Zealand  laniiuages,  nineteen  languages  of  Africa, 
ten  of  India,  and  two  of  North-West  America. 
The  Society  publishes  four  monthly  and  two 
quarterly  periodicals.  It  sustains  a  missionary 
institution,  in  which  the  number  of  students  is 
reported  to  be  diminishing,  and  a  Missionaries' 
Child  reus  Home, 
'''he  following  are  the  statistics  cf  the  missions. 


Missions. 


West  Africa  8 

YoiuUa 8 

Niger   4 

MeJiterraueau 4 


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o 

O 

32 

1,228 

60 

8J9 

19 

77 

IC 

59 

Western  India...   9  87  I8T 

Southlndia ^ 29  941  8,503 

Norihludia 34  647  1,835 

Ceylon 12  218  742 

Mauritius 2  13  72 

Madagascar 1  2  — 

East  Africa 1  1  ' 

China 6  41  160 

New  Ze.aland 18  31  ■— 

Rupert's  Land Itt  39  1,001 

Fort  Simpson 1  5  — — 

Total 154    2,132      14,762 

The  number  of  native  Scholars  in  the  schools, 
so  far  aa  reported,  is  as  follows  :  West  Africa, 
532;yoiuba,  1(168  ;  Niger,  136;  Mediterranean, 
401  ;  Western  India,  1555;  South  India,  13.123; 
North  India.  11,4S2;  Ceylon,  3S02  ;  Mauritius, 
3S8;  China,  70;  Rupert's  Land  758;  Fort  Simp- 
son, 170. 

Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel. 

The  object  of  the  Society  for  the  propagation 
of  the  gosjiel  in  foreign  parts  is  to  receive,  man- 
age and  dispose  of  funds  contributed  for  the 
religious  instruction  ot  "  the  Queen's  subjects 
beyond  the  seas,  to  maintain  clergymen  in  the 
plantations,  colonies,  and  lactones  of  Great 
Britain,  and  to  propagate  the  gospel  in  those 
parts".  Its  President  is  the  Archbishop  of  Can- 
terbury, and  its  Vice-Presidents  are  the  Bishops 
of  the  /inglican  Churches  in  Great  Britain  and 
the  Colonies,  noblemen,  gentlemen,  and  clergy- 
men. Thirty  local  Associations,  in  England,  Ire- 
land, and  Scotland,  co-operate  with  the  s^ociety. 
Its  total  receipts  last  year  were  £91166  bs  7d. 
Its  Indian  appropriations  prove  insufficient  for 
the  work  in  that  region,  and  it  calls  for  £12.500 
additional,  to  enable  it  to  discharge  its  obligat- 
ions there.  Its  missionaries  in  all  the  colonial 
dioceses,  number  517.  An  auxiliary  society  was 
formed  last  year,  called  the  "Ladies  Association 
for  Promoting  Female  Education  among  the 
Heathen."  The  Society  issues  a  number  of 
gratuitous  publications  and  two  monthly  maga- 
zines. 

Wesleyan  Missionary  Society. 

The  report  of  the  Wesleyan  Missionary  Society 
gives  £109,288  16s  6d  as'the  total  of  home  re- 
ceipts, and  the  total,  including  the  foreign  re- 
ceipts at  £148,140  14s  9d,  being  an  increase  of 
over  £3288  in  the  Home  recei))t3.  and  of  nearly 
£3000  in  the  Foreign  receipts.  The  income  is  in 
excess  of  the  Expenditure.  Twenty-seven  miss- 
ionaries and  12  wives  of  missionaries  have  been 
sent  out  during  the  year.  The  missions  include 
688  principal  stations.  9227  preaching  placo-s, 
1011  ministers  and  assistants.  1630  paid  and  20, 
340  unpaid  agents,  148,900  members,  and  17,029 
probationers,  161,402  scholars,  and  8  printing 
establishments.  An  exhibit  by  stations  is  given 
under  the  head  of  th«  Wesleyan  Connection. 

Mtthodist  New  Connexion  Missionary  Society^ 
The  total  income  of  this  society  was  £f)504  Ss 
8d.  £1661  Pis  lOd  were  contributed  for  home 
missions.  Other  particulars  are  given  under 
the  head  of  the  Methodist  New  Connexiou 
Church. 

Primitive  Methodist  Missionary  Society, 
The   receipts  of  this  Society  were  £12.525  fid. 
The  expenditure  has   been  incrcasi'd   arid  an  in- 
crea'^eii   income   is   called    for.     O'her  siati-'ics 
are  given  under  the  Pr'mitive  Mcthodis  bead. 


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ilissions  of  the  United  Methodist  Free  Churches. 

Incline,  £7626  14s  5ii.  Foreign  local  income, 
£2425  13i  lltl;  total,  £10,052  83  4d.  Fourjeen 
persons  have  been  engaged  in  the  home  missions, 
have  held  hundre.is  of  meetings,  made  nearly 
20,001)  visits,  and  report  between  one  and  two 
hundred  hopeful  cases  of  conversion.  Other 
particulars  and  foreign  mission  statistics  are 
given  under  the  head  of  this  denomination. 

Society  for  the  Propagation  0/  the  Gospel  among 

the  Jews, 
The  British  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the 
Gospel  among  the  Jews  is  regarded  as  its  mere 
immediate  field  of  operationt»London  and  the 
larger  towns  of  the  United  Kingdom,  and  co- 
operates with  the  church  of  Scotland's  mission 
to  the  Jews.  Its  objects  are  explained  by  its 
title.  It  employs  24  missionaries  at  home  and 
abroad.  Those  abroad  labor  at  Paris,  Nancy, 
Pre^sburg.  Vienna,  Bromberg,  Wurtemberg, 
Nuremberg,  Breslau,  Konigsberg,  Wallachia, 
Adrianople,  Algiers  Oran,  and  in  Italy.  Its 
total  income  for  the  year  was  £877b  8s  1  Jid.  It 
issues  a  monthly  periodical,  called  the  Jewish 
herald. 

Colonial  and  Continental  Church  Society. 
The  object  of  this  Society  is  to  supply  clergy- 
men, Catechists,  and  Teachers  to  British  resid- 
ents and  sojourners  in  the  colonies,  on  the  con- 
tinent, and  other  pirts  of  the  world.  It  employs 
253  agents  ;  viz.  103  Clergymen,  89  Catechists 
and  schoolmasters,  and  61  female  teachers.  Its 
receipts  last  year  were  £33,640  16s  6d. 

Christian  Vernacular  Education  Society  for 
India. 

The  object  of  the  Christian  Vernacnlar 
Education  Society  for  India  is  to  establish  in 
the  great  towns  of  that  country.  Christian  Ver- 
nacular training  Institutions,  male  and  female, 
and  to  supply  school-books  and  other  works  pre- 
pared on  Christian  principles,  in  the  native 
languages  of  India.  It  has  in  Bengal,  the  North 
West  Provinces,  Punjab,  Bombay,  Madras,  and 
Ceylon,  4  Institutions,  with  136  scholars,  and  98 
institutions  with  4423  scholars.  It  has  printed 
307,350  volumes,  and  has  circulated  231,361.  Its 
receipts  were  £6231  193  9d. 

TJte  Kaiserswerth  Deaconesses, 
The  Kaiserswerth  Deaconesses  Institution  in 
Prussia  had  139  stations  during  1866.  There 
were  401  sisters,  311  deaconesses,  and  180  on 
trial.  The  hospital  numberad  820  patients  in  the 
course  of  the  year.  Fifteen  new  stations  were 
occupied  during  the  year,  but  many  requests 
had  to  be  denied  for  lack  of  sisters.  Thirty-six 
sisters  devoted  themselves  to  cholera  patients, 
and  two  died;  56  were  also  engaged  during  the 
war  in  various  hospitals.  The  total  number  of 
persons,  old  and  young,  who  came  under  the 
hands  of  the  deaconesses  was  37,991. 

Basle  Missionary  Society. 
The  income  of  this  Society  for  the  past  year  is 
stated  to  have  been  as  follows  : 

From  auxiliaries Fr.  230,185 

'•     individuals 220,424 

"     half  batz  and  kreutzer  collect- 
ions        236,749 

*♦     other  sources 100,988 

Fr.  788,316 


The  expenditures  were  832,547  francs.  The 
expenses  in  the  different  missions  were  as  follows: 

The  mission  of  Africa 223,438 

The  mission  in  India 400,503 

The  mission  in  China 50,058 

Efforts  elsewhere 5.040 

The  following  are  the  statistics  of  the  missions 

India,  15  stations,  1558  communicants,  112  neR^  I 
communicants,  1557  children,  total,  3227.  | 

West  Africa,  7  stations,  528  communicants,  71  { 
non-communicants,  419  children,  total,  1048. 

China,  3  stations,  235  communicants,  9  non^ 
communicants,  97  children,  totol,  341. 

The  whole  number  of  male  laborers  is  reported 
as  91,  (of  whom  four  are  "at  home,")  53  havinu' 
received  ordination,  and  38  being  "unordained." 
The  proportion  of  the  latter  is  unusual,  in  conse- 
quence of  the  peculiar  policy  adopted  in  India 
and  West  Africa,  there  being  a  large  number  of 
mechanics  in  both  these  fields. 

Fifty  of  these  are  married,  and  there  are  2  un- 
married woman  in  the  foreign  service. 

These  returns  are  from  the  latest  formal  report 
of  the  Society,  which  is  given  in  the  Christian 
\Vorko{  July  1867,  as  the  fifty-first.  From  the 
reports  of  the  last  anniversary,  it  appears  that 
the  income  of  the  society  for  the  last  year  has 
fallen  off  30,000  francs,  being  this  year  757,000 
francs,  and  that  the  expenditure  has  been  858, 
870  francs,  the  expense  of  the  African  mission 
having  been  increased  25,000  francs.  The  ex- 
penses of  the  Indian  and  China  missions  are  re- 
duced. The  SoutLiwesteru  Indian  mission  flour- 
ishes very  encouragingly,  the  number  of  native 
Christians  having  risen  in  ten  years  from  2500 
to  3810. 

Leipzic  Missonary  Society, 

From  the  report  presented  at  the  last  anni- 
versary of  this  Society  it  appears  that  the  mission 
seminary  has  at  present  10  students.  In  India 
there  are  6  missionaries,  and  1  is  at  present  on  a 
visit  to  Germany.  During  the  last  year  741 
heathen  were  ba|>tized  by  the  missionaries,  and 
there  are  now  8303  converts,  in  373  places.  The 
receipts  have  increased,  notwithstanding  the 
war.  The  Director  of  the  Seminary,  Pastor 
Hardeland,  is  about  to  undertake  a  tour  of  in- 
spection to  the  stations,  taking  with  him  one  new 
missionary. 

Moravian  Missionary  Society. 

The  total  income  for  the  year,  including  special' 
contributions  for  individual  stations,  and  what 
the  stations  themselves  raised,  was  about  350, 
000  thalers,  or  £52,500.  The  number  of  stations 
was  68;  of  laborers  318,  and  of  converts,  70,311. 
The  home  contributions  alone  were  100,280 
thalers. 

Fiench  Missionary  Society, 

The  Evangelical  Missionary  Society  of  Pari* 
'commenced  a  mission  in  South  Africa  in  1822- 
The  attendants  on  religious  services  number 
5000;  there  are  2000  communicants,  and  1500 
pupils  in  the  Sabbath-school.  The  society  has 
recently  commenced  anew  station  at  Senegambia, 
in  West  Africa.  The  number  of  missionaries 
connected  with  the  Society  is  16. 


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2. —Protestant  Mission  Hoases. 

The  Ba»le  Institute. 
This  institute  was  foundeilin  1815.  The 
first  young  men  who  flnislicJ  their  simlies  left 
the  institute  in  lf?18.  Since  then  oyer  40(1  otiiers 
have  left  its  walls.  Th;  first  oliject  ofth'iin- 
BtituHon  w!js  to  cihu'ate  missiouaries.  To  send 
them  Hbroad  on  its  own  account  wis  the  thought 
of  several  years  afterwards.  The  Professors  are 
mostly  of  till'  Lutheran  and  Rsformed  churches, 
but  the  management  of  the  institute  has  always 
been  exceedinsjly  liberal.  For  instance,  it  has 
trained  88  younj;  men  for  the  Church  Missionary 
Society. 

Church  Missionaiy  College. 
The   Church   Missionary   College  atlslingtoui 
London,   was  esiaidi-hed   in  January,  1825.    It 
has  educated  abuiit  330  missionaries. 
St.  Augwstiiif' a,  Canterbury. 
This  institute  was  establishe<l   about   15  years 
aso.  by  the  society  for   the   piopagation  of  the 
Go-p,'l.     It  has  educated  about  100  missionaries, 
and  has  now  about  40  siiidents. 

St.  Aidare's.  Hirkenhead. 
This  is  a  new  institution,  under  the  charg^e  of 


the  Rev.  Dr.  Baylee,  of  the  established  Church 
of  Ivn^iand.  It  had  at  the  last  accounts,  about 
15  students. 

Wesleyan  Training  School. 
The  committee  of  the  We^levan  Missionary 
Society  have  established  a  Missjijiiary  Train.ng 
School  at  Richmond,  near  London,  to  v  h'ch  ])art 
of  tlie  revenues  received  during  the  Jubilee  year 
(lbti4),  are  to  be  devoted. 

London  Missionary  Society  Institution. 
The  l/ondon  Missionary  S  oiety  have  establish- 
ed a  training  school   at  Ilighgate,   near  London* 

Free  Church  of  Sc  tland. 
The  general  assembly  of  the  Free  Church  of 
Scotland  have  rt-solved,  in  accordance  with  a 
recommendation  of  the  Rev  Dr  Duff,  to  establish 
a  training  school,  and  to  institute  a  chair  of 
■'Evan}."'listic  Theology"'  in  connection  with 
their  Theological  Seminary. 

Mission  House  in  Philadrlpkia. 
A  mission  school  under  the  care  of  the  Epis- 
copalians was  opened  at  Gambier,  *>U\o.  in  1864, 
with  the  Ri'V.  J.  G.  Auer  as  princip;il.  It  was 
removed,  a  year  afterwards,  to  West  I'hiladelphia 
and  connected   with  the  Dlyinily-school  there. 


—I     mm  &»     ;* 


NEW  THEOLOGICAL  PUBLICATIONS 


HARPER  &  BROS.,  N  Y. 

Cylnpeitin  of  Bi'iUcil,  Thenlosrical  and  Eccle- 
sinsncal  Literature.  Prtparrd  hi/ thi^  Rtv.  John 
M'C'iniork.  /)    I),  and  Jamen  Strong,  S.  T.  I). 

Tliis  worii  is  to  be  in  -ix  volumes,  of  which 
the  first.  cont:<ining  the  letters  A  and  B,  has  been 
iss«ed.  and  the  second  is  soon  to  follow.  It  is 
the  fullest  and  most  complete  work  of  th"  kind 
in  the  En;jlish  language,  giving  not  only  the 
substance  of  all  tlnit  is  to  be  found  in  other 
similar  ones,  but  much  that  is  new,  and  has 
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ors, the  matters  relating  to  each  denominaiions 
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the  wiirk  has  been  already  genernllv  acknow- 
ledged by  the  best  religious  and  secular  papers 
of  the  country,  it  is  a  book  indispensable  in 
every  theological  library. 

Cnlta^e  Life,  Its  Theory  and  Prartirg.  By  Rev. 
Ptephan  Olin,  I,.  L.  D,,  late  President  of  the 
Wesleyan  University. 

A   geleocion  of  the    later    baccalaunate    dis- 


courses and  lectures  of  this  distinguished  divine 
and  instructor,  embodying  his  mature  views  of 
mental  and  moral  culture,  as  developed  in  the 
exjierience  of  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  of 
college  life. 

Ler.tnri's  on  the  Evid-nces  of  Cnristionity  in 
the  jVinelemth  Century.  By  Albert  Barnes, 
autlior  of  "Notes  of  the  N'ew  Testament"  etc. 

Thi<  work  is  the  substance  of  ten  Lectures 
delivered  in  January  and  Feliruary  in  I8t)7  in 
New  Vork  on  the  Ely  foundation  of  the  Union 
Theological  Seminary.  The  lecturer  reviews  the 
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discoveries  and  doctrines,  and  meets  the  argu- 
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The  Hnsvenots  ;  th'^r  SHthmevts,  Churches, 
and  Industries  i>^  Etiii'nvd  ii'd  Irrlnnd.  By 
Samuel  Smiles,  author  of  "Self  Help",  "Lives 
of  the  EuL'ineers",  eic 

A  very  interesting  work,  on  one  of  the  most 
striking  episodes  of  religions  history  The  appen- 
dix contains,  some  det;iile, I  statements,  lists  of 
refugees  etc,  which  could  not  be  loriually  in- 
corporated in  the  body  of  the  work.  An  excellent 
article  is  added  by'  the  .American  publi-h  rs 
on  the  Huguenots  in  .America.  It  is  written 
by  G.  I',  liisosway.  Esq.,  who  has  given  much 
afeniion  to  the  subject,  and  writes  with  a  loveof 
his  work. 


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doctrines  taught  by  Jesns  Christ,  assuming  that 
they  are  identical  with  those  of  the  Catholio 
Ciiurch,  reviews  the  histoiy,  decrees,  and  doct- 
rioes  of  that  church  and  criticises  Protestantism, 
its  origin,  development,  and  fruits,  in  Europd 
and  America. 

mb!e  Tearhins:s  in  Nature.    By  the  Rev.  Hugh 

McMillm,  Author  of  ''First Forms  of  Vejjetation." 

Sixteen  essays  on  subjects  consonant  with   the 


D.  APPLETON  &  CO.,  N.  ■S'. 

Origin.  Rise,  and  Progress  of  Mnrmonism 
Itiography  of  its  t'owiders  md  History  of  its 
Vh  rrh.  Personal  Remembrances  and  Historical 
Collections  hitherto  unwritttn.  By  Pomeroy 
Tucker.  Palmyra,  N.  Y. 

Jlr.  Tuclier  was  a  townsman  of  Joseph  Smith 
ia  the  days  wlien  tlie  Mormon  faith  orij^irated. 

He  was  a   witness  of  the  procee  lings  of  the  dis- ,  _  _ 

covery  of  tlie  "tables"  in  the  hill,  and  of  the  . ''tie,  the  design -.f  which  is  to  sliow  "that  the 
publication  of  the  Boole  of  Mormon,  having  been  i  teaching  of  nature  and  the  teaching  of  the  Bible 
a  proof-reader  in  the  olHee  in  which  it  was  \  '^^'^  directed  to  the  same  great  end  ;  that  the 
published.  His  acquaintance  with  the  subject  •  Bihle  contains  the  spiritual  truths  which  are 
was  intimate  and  personal.  His  book  is  the  most  '  n^^cessary  to  make  us  wise  unto  salvation,  and 
complete  ant  reliable  history  of  the  sort  that  has  '  the  objects  and  scenes  are  the  pictures  by  which 
been  published,  and  is  written  in  a  style  that  ]  these  truths  are  illustrated."  In  a  portion  of  the 
makesit  generally  acceptable.  I  essays  "the   objects  of  nature  are  described  for 

A  cumprehensiite  Dictionary  of  the  Uibfe,  main-  \  the  sake  of  their  own  beauty  and  wonder,  and  for 
Iv  a'riil.:eit  f,om  I).  iVm.  Sniitk's  Dictionary  •/  the  evidences  of  Divine  wisdom,  power  and  love 
the  hilile.  but  containing  important  additions  and  '  which  they  display.  In  the  second  section,  they 
imprnvtme  nt»  from  the  works  of  Robinson,  Gesen-  :  aie  viewed  entirely  in  their  typic  il  aspect."  Dr. 
ius  etc.,  and  many  other  eminent  icAo/ors,  com- J  McMillan  is  a  pleasing  and  instructive  writer. 
■n.enlaiors.  travellers,  and  authors  in  uanous  i  a-nd  endowed  with  bright  imaginative  fncMlti  ■* 
departments.  Edited  by  Rev.  Samuel  W.  Barnum. 


This  is  an  abridgement  for  more  general  cir- 
culation than  the  larger  work  of  Dr.  Smith  can 
comui  ind.  The  aim  oi  the  editor  has  been  to 
make  evui  ything  intelligible  to  those  who  under- 
stand only  English,  to  condense  the  greatest 
possible  amount  of  valuable  information  into  a 
single  volume  ;  and  to  guard  against  all  in- 
fluences hostile  to  Christian  faith  and  love.  The 
words  of  the  vocabulary  are  pronounced,  and 
syllabized.  Maps  have  been  adiied  and  pictural 
illustrations,  intended  for  instruciiou  and  utility, 
rather  than  for  mere  ornament.  It  is  published 
in  semi-monthly  numbers  ol  48riiyal  ociavo  pages 
each,  to  be  completed  in  abou  22  numbers.  The 
editor,  the  Rev.  Samuel  W.  Barnum  was  a  co- 
laborer  of  the  late  Prof.  Goodrich,  in  1845— '47, 
in  the  revision  of  Webster's  Dictiotvary. 

Ezektel  and  Daniel;  with  i\oles,  critical,  ex- 
plaant.nry  and  practical  designed  for  both.  pastO'  s 
and  people.     By  Rev.  Henry  C  'Wles,  D.  D. 

This  work  is  a  continuati  .n  of  the  series  on  all 
the  prophets  whi<^h  was  commenced  last  year  by 
the  publication  of  "Tlie  Minor  Prophets".  The 
design  is  to  be  concise  and  lucid,  to  bring  out 
the  true  sense  of  the  original  without  prejudice. 


ROBERT  CARTER  &  BROS..  ISf.  if 

Sermons  of  the  late  Alexander  McClelland,  D, 
D..  edited  by  Richard  W.  Dickinson,  D.  D. 

Dr.  McClelland  was  from  1815  till  1822  pastor 
of  the  Rutgers  St.  Presbyterian  Church.  New 
York  City,  from  then  till  18:19  Professor  of 
Rhetoric,  Logic,  and  Metapliysis  in  Dickinson 
College,  and  afterwards  Professor  of  I.Anguages 
in  Rutgers  College,  and  of  Oriental  Litertitore 
and  Biblical  Critic. sra  in  the  Theolo^-ical 
Si-minary  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church.  His 
sermons  were  characterized  by  clearness,  strength 
variety,  and  aptness  of  illustration  with  a  vein 
of  sarcastic  humor,  and  by  turns  argumentative, 
exp  isiting,  descriptive,  inferential  and  experi- 
mental. 

Tif  Wcrd.  Tlie  House  of  Israel.  By  the 
author  of  the  "Wide,  Wide  World." 

The  second  volume  of  a  ,>ieries  of  works,  in 
conversiti.inal  styie  on  subjects  from  Bible 
History,  relating  the  stories,  and  describing  the 
customs  of  the   times.     The   articles   in  this  are 


The  former  volumes  were  well  received  an. I    met  i  nineteen  in  nuinbei,  leading  the  story  from  the 
with  high  commend. tions  from  the  more  judicious]  "">«  of  Isaac  through  the  i.Journ  m  Egypt. 


secular  and  religious  papers,  and  f'om  sueh  well 
known  ministers  as  Drs.  Bacon  and  J.  P.  Ttiomp- 
snn.  The  series  will  be  completed  by  the  public- 
ation of  volumes  on  Isaiah  and  Jeremiah. 

The  Human  Element  in  the  Inspiration  of  the 
Sacred  S  rijdures.  By  T.  F.  Curtis,  D.  D.,  late 
I'rofesor  of'rheology  in  the  University  at  Lewis- 
bnr^h.  Pa. 

Tilt;  autlior  perceived  his  views  on  the  subject 
of  this  work  assuming  a  different  character  from 


^Out  of  Harness.'"  Sketches  narrative  (tnd 
descriptive.  By  Thomas  Guthrie,  D.  D.,  Editor 
of  the  Sunday  Magazine. 

O  -r  Father's  Busines.^,    The  same  author. 

The  first  of  these  eonsicts  of  sketches  of  the 
authors  missionary  labors  in  and  about  Edin- 
burgh, with  three  papers  relating  to  Paris,  and 
articles  wt.ich  are  real  recreations.  They  are 
n:irrttive,  descriptive,  reflective    and  didactic. 


those   entertained    by  his  denorainatiou.  and  felt  j  ^y  turns. 

ithisduty  to  resign  his  professorshiit.  and  devote  I      The  second  contains   eleven   essays,   or   short 

liiraself  to  tlie  examination  of  the  subject.      This  !  sermons     conveying     piaciical    admonitions    in 

work  emhbdies  his  conclusions.     He   gives  the     Christian  du.y.     Dr.  Guthrie  is  one  of  the   most 

hirman  elem.-nt  a  more  prominuTit  place  in,  anl     pleasing  religious  writers  of  Scotland. 

agrees  lor   a   more   liberal   construction   of   the 

*^criptures.  With  a  less  iin|>licit   reli  ince  on  tlieir 

tntire     infallibility,     than     are      admitted     by 

Kvangelical  Christians  generally.     The  tone   of 

his  vrork  is  temperate. 

CItrisn mity   and    tti    Conflicts,    ancient    and 
modem.     By  E.  E.  Marcv,  A.  M. 

A  vindicatiim   cf  the  doctrines  and  History  of 
the  Roman    Catholic    Church.    It    reviews   the 


JOS.  M.  WILSON,  Philadelphia. 

The  Presbyterian  Historical  Almanac  anil 
nnnail  RememOrancer  of  the  Church.  Philadel- 
phia: Joseph  M.  Wilson.  The  best  and  coni- 
pletest  Denominational  Almauac  ia  the  United 

States. 


M 


I      CARLTON  &  PORTER.  N.  Y. 

history  nr  the  M-tkoJisl  Episcopal  Chnrch.  By 
Abel  Stevens,  I,L.  D. 

A  Oompemlims  History  ot  American  AJethod- 
M'rt.     The  sime  author. 

The  foiiiih  volume  of  Dr.  Stevens' History  of 
llio  Metliodist  Episcopal  Church  in  the  United 
States  wai  published  in  October,  completing  the 
work  so  far  as  the  author  considers  it  be^t  to 
1)6  completed  at  present.  The  history  be^'ins 
wixh  the  first  planting  of  Methodism  in  tlie 
country,  witli  the  founding  of  the  first  class  and 
preaching  of  the  first  sermon,  and  traces  tlie 
growtliof  the  denomination  anil  every  phase  of 
its  develojieinent  in  all  parts  of  the  country,  un- 
tiH  1820,  when  the  denomination  was  firmly 
establish  d.  and  had  all  its  agencies  organized 
antl  successfully  at  work.  It  is  characterized  by 
the  S|iirite(i  personal  sketches  of  the  early 
ministers  of  which  it  in  great  part  consists,  and 
by  vivid  pictures,  and  is  one  of  the  most  attract- 
ive, as  well  as  faithful  and  accurate  works  of  the 
kind  in  En^'lish  liierature. 

The  eonii)endium  is  an  abridged  edition  of  this 
work  and  is  in  one  large  octavo  volume,  for  more 
popular  use. 

Scribner  &  Co ,  N.  Y, 

A  Commentary,  Critical,  Doctrinal,  and  Homi- 
Irticnl,  Miiih  special  reference  to  Ministers  and 
Students.  By  John  Peter  Lange,  I).  D.,  in  con- 
nection with  a  number  of  European  Divines. 
Translateil  from  the  German,  and  edited,  with 
(additions  original  and  selected,  by  Philip  SohalT, 
D.  D.,  in  connection  with  American  Divines  of 
varioHS  evangelical  denominations. 

Dr.  Lange's  Commentary,  so  far  as  it  has  been 
finished,  is  accepted  as  a  standard  by  German 
Evangelical  Christians,  and  has  acquired  a  re- 
putation second  to  that  of  no  work,  in  every 
couintry  in  which  it  has  been  made  known.  The 
author,  Dr.  Lange,  is  one  of  the  most  prominent 
theologicans  of  Germany.  His  theology,  as  Dr. 
Schaff  says,  is  essentially  biblical  and  evangelic- 
al Catholic,  and  inspiied  by  a  fresh  and  refresh- 
ing enthusiasm  for  truth  under  all  its  types  and 
aspects,  more  positive  and  decided  than  that  of 
Neander  and  I'holuck,  yet  more  liberal  and  con- 
ciliating than  the  orthodoxy  of  Hengstenberg. 
His  commentary  is  critical,  doctrinal,  and  homl- 
letical,  the  three  departments  being  kept  sepa- 
rate. The  translation  and  revision  of  the 
American  edition  is  superintended  by  Dr.  Schaff, 
who  does  a  share  of  the  work  personally  and  is 
responsible  for  the  whole,  and  is  aided  by  a  num- 
ber of  scholars  of  known  reputation,  wliose 
names  are  sufficient  testimony  of  their  capacity 
and  conscientiousness,  and  the  accuracy  of  their 
work.  Dr.  Lange's  work  is  given  entire,  exactly 
translated  into  idiomatic  English,  except  the 
scripture  text,  which  instead  of  being  translated 
from  his  translation,  is  taken  from  the  English 
authorized  version.  The  additions,  comments 
and  corrections  of  the  editors,  swelling  the  work 
to  the  comprehension  of  nearly  one  third  more 
matter  tlian  the  original  German,  are  given 
separately,  and  with  distinctive  marks,  to  avoid 
the  danger  of  confounding  them  with  Dr.  Lange's 
own.    The  Mrork  has  been  received  with  unex- 


nmpled  favor  by  clergymen  and  religious  jonr- 
nalsof  all  thecvanselical  denominations  which 
genei^ally  pronounce  it  the  best  that  lias  appear- 
e<l.  Four  volumes,  averaging  from  480  to  5fi0 
pages  8vo.  have  been  published,  comprising  the 
Go,pelsof  Matthew.  Mark,  and  Luke,  the  Acts 
of  the  Apostles,  and  the  Epistles  of  James,  Peter, 
.'ohn  and  Judo.  The  fir.u  volume  contains  also  a 
general  theoloiiical  and  homiletical  introduction 
to  the  New  Testiim-nt.  The  work  will  embrace 
the  who'e  of  the  Old  and  New  Testaments.  No 
clergyman  who  lias  ever  examined  one  of  the 
volumes  will  want  to  remain  without  the  whole 
work. 

History  of  the  Chnstiin  Church.  By  Philip 
bchaff,  1).  D.  Author  of  the  History  of  the 
Apostolic  Church. 

Dr.  Scli.iff  s  reputation  is  established  as  one  of 
the  best  biblical  scholars  and  greatest  church 
historians.  His  woro  have  all  been  reco-nized 
as  authoriUtive  here  as  weli  as  in  Europe.  The 
present  work,  which  is  a  continuntion  of  the 
torraerone,  on  the  Ai>ost.olic  Church,  completes 
the  author's  History  of  Ancient  Christianity 
bringing  it  down  to  the  close  of  the  sixth  century* 
It  embo<lies  the  results  of  the  latest  German  ani 
English  research,  to  a  higher  degree  than  any 
other  work  of  the  kind  published  either  in  the 
Kngli^h  and  German  languages.  For  the  period 
over  which  it  extends  we  regard  it  as  the  best 
work  extant. 

Hdinileties   and    Pastoral  T/ieologu.     Bv   Wm 
G.  T.  Shedd,  D.  D.  ^^      ^       "" 

Dr.  Sliedd  is  well  known  as  an  able  preacher 
and  a  thorough  biblical  scholar.  The  substance 
of  this  work  wm  delivered  as  lectures  in  the 
Auburn  Theological  Seminary  in  ]b62  and  1S53 
The  volume  is  an  excellent  practical  as  well  ai 
theoretical  aid  to  ministers  in  their  efforts  to 
cultivate  the  highest  degree  of  efficlfency. 

Pray  rs from.  Plymouth  Pulpit.  Hy  Kev.  Henrv 
Ward  Beecher.  ' 

These  Prayers  were  selected  from  reports  of 
Mr.  Beecher's  Prayers  which  were  taken  phono- 
graphically  without  his  knowledge,  but  Mr 
Beecher  afterwards  consented  to  the  publication" 
They  are  distinguished  for  the  same  features  of 
excellence  which  have  made  Dr.  Beecher'a 
sermons  so  famous. 

The  Methodist,  N.  Y. 
The  N.  Y.  Methodist,  a  christian  family  paper 
now  in  its  eighth  year  has  already  obtained 
a  weekly  circulation  of  over  15,0(10.  The  in- 
crease of  circulation  during  the  p.ist  year  has 
been  greater  than  during  any  previous  period  of 
Its  history,  and  from  all  appearances  theincrease 
during  the  coming  year,  will  exceed  that  of  the 
past.  We  call  special  attention  to  the  fuller 
statement  of  the  plan  as  set  forth  by  the  publish- 
er of  the  paper  on  another  pasre.  Some  of  its 
features,  as  the  regular  publication  of  sermons 
from  the  most  eminent  pulpit  orators  of  the 
Methodist  and  otherProtestant  Churches,  and  the 
completeness  of  its  department  of  religious  in- 
telligence, which  aims  at  giving  a  complete 
history  of  all  the  religions  denominations  of  the 
world  during  the  current  year,  recommend  it  to 
the  attention  of  clergymen  and  members  of  all 
religious  denominations. 


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DENOMINATIONAL  RECORD. 


In  this  department  wo  give,  under  the  head 
of  the  seveiiil  denouiina  iona,  a  collection  of  iii- 
terestiiig  events  and  ircuieuts  in  the  religious 
histoi-y  of  the  yeai-  1857.  It  is  not  intended  to 
give  a  history  of  the  several  denoraiualious,  but 
uierely  to  select  a  few  of  the  most  memorable 
tiii:ts  of  their  history, 

Baptists. 

New  Missi->n  to  Farther  India. 

A  new  mission  has  been  established  among 
th>e  Laos.  A  church  has  been  formed  of  three 
persons,  one  of  whom  is  preparing  for  the  min- 
istry. 

Baptist  Colony  in  Turkey. 

Catalni,  in  Turkey,  is  declared  entirely  a 
Bap' ist  colony.  The  church  has  forty-nine  mem- 
bers, and  the  conjjregatioas  average  70  persons. 
There  are  now  78  members  in  Turkey,  and  more 
awaiting  baptism.  Thirty  have  been  baptized 
during  ilie  year. 

Southern  Baptist  Convention. 

The  Southern  Baptist  Convention  met  at 
Memphis  on  May  9th.  Two  hundred  delegates 
were  present  from  thirteen  States,  including  the 
Districtof  Columbia.  The  Foreign  Mission  Board 
reported  the  expenditures,  amounting  to  $22,1  (JO 
during  Iha  past  year.  They  have  six  missions 
in  Cliina  and  Africa.  The  Domestic  Board,  lo- 
cated in  Marion,  Ala.,  has  collected  and  distrib- 
uteii  $44,000.  It  employs  124  home  missionaries 
and  10  Indian  missionaries  among  the  Chicoi)ee 
and  Cherokee  tribes. 

The  Board  of  Indian  Missions  reported  but 
little  progress  during  the  past  year,  owing  to  a 
mcagreness  of  funds,  fix  missions  only  had 
been  kept  in  the  lield.  The  receipts  during  the 
year  amounted  to  $6,740  ;  the  disbursements 
to  $6,62U. 

It  was  resolved  to  pray  for  the  conversion 
cf  the  Jews,  and  to  hold  future  conventions  an- 
nually. The  convention  also  adopted  a  report 
in  favor  of  contributing  to  the  moral  and  relig- 
ious improvement  of  the  colored  people,  by  the 
establishment  of  Sunday  schools,  missions,  and 
day  schools,  and  to  accept  the  cooperation  of  the 
Northi^ra  Baptise  Home  Missionary  Society. 
They  also  invited  the  colored  Baptist  churches 
te  cooperate  with  them  in  sustaining  mis-iiooa- 
ries  and  colonists  fitted  to  missionary  work  in 
Africa. 

Colored  Baptists  in  East  Tennessee. 

This  year's  session  (the  fourth)  of  this  asso- 
c'ation,  developed  tlie  interesting  fact  that  in 
four  yearg  it  has  grown  from  eight  churches  to 
tliirty-two. 

Louisiana  Colored  Baptist  Association. 

This  has  been  recently  organized.     It  has  19 
churclies,  all  but  four  formed  since  1861. 
Deputation'  from    the    North    to    the    Southern 
Baptist  Cunxyention. 

During  the  meeting  of  the  American  Bap- 
tist Home  Missionary  Society  at  Chicago,  says  a 
correspondent,  "an  exciiing  scene  occurred  on 
a  motion  to  appoint  a  delegation  to  the  Southern 
Baptist  Conveutiyn,  to  Tjeet  in  Baltimore  next 


May.  As  might  have  besn  expected,  a  itrong 
diversity  of  sentim-nt  was  manifest,  and  soma 
sharp  words  were  uttered  in  opposition  to  the 
motion,  as  well  as  in  its  favor.  For  a  time  tlio 
confusion  was  marked,  hissings  mingling  witli 
ajiplause  in  a  manner  more  suited  to  a  political 
caucus  than  to  the  house  of  God.  But,  finally, 
the  motion  prevailed  by  a  large  majority,  and 
the  delegation  was  appointed." 

Free  Will  Baptist  Mission  in  the  South. 
Ten  thousand  dollars  have  been  offered  the 
Free-Will  Baptists  towards  the  establishment  of 
an  educational  institution  at  the  South.  The 
offer  came  from  a  gentleman  in  Maine,  of  anoth- 
er denomination,  and  is  conditioned  on  the  rais- 
ing an  equal  amount  by  them  before  the  first 
day  of  January  next ;  the  whole  to  be  a  perma- 
nent fund,  which  shall  itself  be  increased  to 
$40,000  by  January,  1873  ;  or  otherwise  the  en- 
tire income  shall  be  used  only  to  bring  the  fund 
up  to  this  latter  amount;  after  which  the  cor- 
poration will  take  charge  of  it  for  educational 
purposes.  A  provisional  act  of  incorporation 
has  ueen  secured,  the  work  of  raising  the  ten 
thousand  dollars  has  been  vigorously  entered 
on,  and  ample  grounds  purchased  at  Harper's 
Ferry,  the  site  selected  for  the  purpose.  A  nor- 
mal school  will  be  opened  here  next  September. 

Theological  Institutions. 

A  new  Baptist  Theological  Institution  has 
been  founded  in  Pennsylvania.  The  family  of 
the  late  John  P.  Crozer  have  given  land  and 
buildings  worth  $85,000,  and  $170,000  as  an  en- 
dowment fund,  to  which  $25,000  have  been  add- 
ed by  Mr.  Wm.  Bucknell.  The  institution  will 
not  be  opened  before  the  fall  of  18f)8. 

An  effort  is  being  made  to  endow  the  Chi- 
cago Theological  Seminary. 

Home  Mission  Society  in  the  South. 

Among  the  colored  people  the  Society  has 
had  fitty  ordained  ministers  under  commission, 
or  about  one-sixth  of  the  whole  number  em- 
ployed during  the  year.  Ninety-seven  colored 
Baptist  churches  have  been  aided.  The  work 
of  educating  ministers  for  this  people  has  been 
prosecuted.  Schools  have  been  sustained  at 
Washington,  Alexandria,  Culpepper,  Freder- 
icksburg, Williamsburg,  Richmond.  Portsmouth, 
Raleigh,  New  Orleans,  Murfreesboro,  Nashville, 
Albany,  and  Ashland.  Instruction  has  been 
given  to  more  than  three  hundred  colored 
preachers,  and  persons  having  the  ministry  in 
view.  Among  the  colored  youth,  fifty-nine 
teachers  have  been  employed  as  teachers  of  day- 
schools,  who  have  had  under  their  tuition  6,136 
pupils.  The  appropriations  in  the  education  of 
freedmen  for  the  year  amount  to  $39,925.11. 
Bibles /or  the  Freedmen. 

The  American  and   Foreign    Bible   Society 
have  printed  an  edition  of  the  Testament,  espe- 
cially for  the  freedmen,  in  large,  clear  type. 
Six- Principle   Baptists. 

The  one  hundred  and  ninety-seventh  anni- 
versary of  the  Massachusetts  and  Rhode  Island 
Six-Principle  Baptist  Association  met  this  year 
at  North  Kingston,  B.  I.,   in  a  church  which 


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da(03  its  history  from  1665.  The  six  principles 
(.omprising  the  fiiith  of  this  dennmiiiatiou  are  : 
repeutance,  faith,  ba])tisin,  laying  on  of  hands, 
the  resurrection,  ami  a  general  judgment.  The 
fourth  princljile  has  the  same  place  as  the  thirJ. 
wherein  this  differs  from  other  Baptist  chuich- 
is.  The  sect  is  decrea'^iug,  and  is  little  kuown 
out  of  the  abore-meutioned  States. 

Mr.  Spurgeons'  Boys'  Home. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Spurgeon.  on  the  9th  of  Sep- 
tember, laid  the  corner-stones  of  three  homes 
for  fatherless  bovs,  to  be  erected  at  Stockwell, 
England,  the  fruits  of  a  donation  of  £20,000 
from  Mrs.  Ann  Hillyard.  The  homes  are  each 
to  accommodate  from  eighteen  to  twenty  boys, 
who  are  to  receive  a  godly  education,  in  hope 
that  they  may  become  ministers  and  missiona- 
ries. 

Mr.  Spurgeon's  Church, 

The  church  edifice  is  known  as  the  Metro- 
politan Tabernacle,  and  will  seat  five  thousaiiii 
persons.  It  cost,  with  ground,  about  $750,t)0O. 
The  church  has  a  membership  of  3,800.  A  Bible- 
elass  of  200  young  men  is  conducted  by  one  of 
the  elders.  Mrs.  Uartlett  commenced  a  lady's 
Bible-class  with  three  scholars — it  has  now  an 
average  attendance  of  700.  Over  600  young 
men  arc  engaged  every  Lord's  clay  in  preaching 
in  halls,  stations,  &c.  Sixty  churches  are  now 
supplied  with  pastors  from  thi  church.  Thi; 
College  under  its  care  has  93  students,  and  243 
Bight  pupils.  The  students  are  sent  out  to 
preach  as  soon  as'  they  are  deemed  qualified 
The  College  costs  about  $24,000  pe^  annum— the 
church  contributing  weekly  of  this  sum  $250  by 
voluntary  subscriptions. 


The  Anglican  Church, 


Ritualism. 

The  ritualistic  controvorsy  has  continued 
in  both  England  and  the  United  States  to  be 
jirosecuted  with  much  vigor  on  both  sides,  and 
has  received  considerable  attention  from  the 
church  authorities,  and  been  made  the  subject 
of  several  official  declarations. 

On  the  loth  of  January,  18G7,  a  declaration 
against  ritualism  was  issued  at  BuflTalo,  signed 
bj'  28  of  the  American  Bishops.  This  declara- 
tion declares  that  liy  the  24th  article  of  religion, 
each  particular  or  National  church  has  authori- 
ty to  ordain,  ehauge,  or  abolish  the  ceremonies 
or  rites  of  the  church  of  merely  human  author- 
ity ;  that  they  need  not  be  alike  in  all  times  and 
I,  places,  but  may  be  changed  and  adapted  to  cir- 
,  cumstances,  if  always  accordant  with  God's 
;  word  ;  tliat  the  American  church  is  "a  particu- 
lar and  N.ilional  church,  and  has  equal  author- 
itv  with  the  English  to  establish  ceremonies  and 
rites,  and  that  those  directed  in  th*- prayer-book 
in  use  in  America  are  the  law  of  the  church, 
"which,"  the  declaration  continues,  "every 
bishop,  presbyter,  and  deacon  of  ihe  same  has 
bound  himself  by  subscription  to  the  Promise 
of  CoTiloruiity  in  Article  VII.  of  the  Constitu- 
tion, toobev,  observe,  and  follow  ;  and  that  no 
strange  or  foreign  usages  shouhl  be  introduced 
or  sanctioned  by  the  private  judgment  of  any 
member  or  menib'^r-i  of  this  church,  clerical  or 
lay.     *    *    *    *    That  no  Prayer-book  of  the 


Church  of  England,  in  the  reign  of  whatever 
sovereign  set  forth,  and  no  laws  of  the  Church 
of  England  have  any  force  of  law  in  this  church 
suoh  as  can  be  justly  cited  in  defence  of  any 
dajiarture  from  the  express  law  of  this  church, 
its  lituigy,  its  discipline,  rites,  and  usages. 

"And  we,  therefore,  consider  that  in  this 
particular  Nation  il  Church,  amj  att  mjit  to  in- 
triduce  into  the  public  worsliin  of  Ahnii;fily  God 
usage"  that  have  never  ben  known,  such  as  the 
use  oj  incense,  and  the  humiiif;  of  lights  in  thu 
order  /itr  the  Holy  Communiun  ;  rtvermces  to 
the  H'lly  Table  or  to  the  elements  thereon,  such 
as  indicate  or  imply  that  the  sacrifice  of  our 
Divine  Lord  and  Savior,  '  once  offered,'  was  not 
a  '  full,  .perfect,  and  sufficient  sacrifice,  obla- 
tion, and  satisl'ac  ion,  (or  the  sins  of  the  whole 
world  ; '  the  adoption  of  clerical  habits  hitherto 
unknown,  or  material  alterations  of  those  which 
have  been  in  use  since  the  establishment  of  our 
Episcopate,  is  m  innovation  which  violates  tii.e 
iiscipLme  of  the  Church,  ojfendeth  against  its 
Common  order,  and  hurtetk  ihe  authoniy  if  the 
magistrate,  and  woundeth  the  (;onscienci.s  of  the 
weak  brethten.' 

"  Furthermore,  that  we  be  not  misunder- 
■stood,  let  it  be  noted  that  we  include  in  tbesa 
censures  all  departures  from  the  laws,  rubrics, 
and  settled  order  of  this  church,  as  well  by  de- 
feat as  by  excess  of  observance,  designing  to 
maintain  in  its  integrity  the  sound  sciiptural 
and  primitive,  and  therefore  tlie  catholic  and 
apostolic  spirit  of  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer," 

This  declaration  was  signed  by  the  follow- 
ing bishops  : 

Bishop  Smith,  of  Kentucky  ;  Bishop  Mcll- 
vaine,  of  Ohio  ;  Bishop  Kemper,  of  Wisconsin  , 
Bishop  .McCoskry,  of  Michigan  ;  Bishop  Lee,  of 
Delaware;  Bishop  Johns,  of  Virginia;  Bishop 
Kastburn.  of  Massachusetts  ;  Bishop  Chase,  of 
New  Hampshire  ;  Bishop  Upfold,  of  Indiana  ; 
Bishop  Payne,  African  Mission  ;  Bishop  Wil- 
liams, of  Connecticut ;  Bishop  Davis,  of  South 
Carolina;  Bishop  Kip,  of  California;  Bishop 
Lee  of  Iowa;  Bi.-.hop  Clark,  of  Rhode  !-land  ; 
Bishop  Gregg,  of  Texas;  Assistant  Bishop  Be- 
dell, of  Oliio  ;  Bishop  Whipple,  of  Minnesota; 
Assistant  Bishop  Talbot,  of  Indiana;  Bishop 
Wiimer,, of  Alabama  ;  Bishop  Vail,  of  Kansas  ; 
Bishop  C'oxe,  of  Western  New  York  ;  Bishop 
Clarkson,  of  Nebraska  ;  Bishoj)  Randall,  of  Col- 
orado; Bishop  Kerfoot,  of  Pittsburg;  Bishop 
Williams,  China  Missiou  ;  Assistant  Bishop 
Cummins,  Kentucky  ;  Assistant  Bishop  Armi- 
tage,  of  Wisconsin. 

In  the  Convocation  of  York,  on  the  20th  of 
March,  the  following  resolution  was  aclopted 
unanimously  bv  the  President  and  Bishops,  and 
iu  the  Lower  House  by  23  to  7  : 

"  Whereas,  certaiii  vestments  and  Ritual 
observances  have  recently  been  introduc  d  into 
the  Services  of  the  Church  of  England,  this 
House  desires  to  place  on  record  its  deliberate 
opinion  that  these  innovations  are  to  be  depre- 
cated, as  tending  to  favor  errors  rejected  by 
that  Church,  and  as  being  repugnant  to  tha 
feelings  of  a  large  number  both  of  the  laity  and 
c'ergy.  And  tlds  House  is  further  of  opiuioa 
that  it  is  desirable  that  the  minister  in  public 
praver  and  the  ministration  of  the  sacraments 
and  other  rites  of  the  Church,  should  continue 
to  use  the  surplice,  academical  hood,  or  tippet 
for  non-giadiiate,  and  t.e  scarf  or  stole  ;  thesa 
having  received  the  sanction  of  long-contiuued 
usage." 


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Th&  Upper  House  of  the  Convocation  of  Can- 
terbury on  tlie  thirteenth  of  February  un- 
animously (leciared  that,  "having  regard  to  the 
dangers,  first,  of  favoring  errors  deliberately 
rejected  by  'he  Church  of  England,  ami  foster- 
inj;  a  tendency  to  desert  her  conimuniou; 
second,  of  offending  even  in  things  indifferent 
devout  wor^hiptrs  in  oar  Churches  who  have 
be.'u  long  used  to  other  modes  of  service,  and 
thus  of  eatr  nging  many  of  the  faithful  laiiy  ; 
third,  of  unneces»arily,  departing  from  uniform- 
ity :  fourlli,  of  increasinsr  the  difficulties  which 
prevent  the  return  of  separatists  to  our  com- 
munion— we  c  nivey  to  the  Lower  House  our  un- 
animous decision  that,  having  respect  to  the 
considerations  here  recorded,  and  to  the  rubric 
concerninL'  tlie  service  of  the  Church  in  our 
Booli  of  Common  Prayer,  our  judgment  is  that 
no  alterations  from  long-sanctioned  and  usual 
ritual  ouglit  to  be  made  in  our  Churches  until 
the  sanction  of  the  bishop  of  the  diocese  ha8  been 
obtained  tliercto".  This  resolution  being  sent 
down  to  the  Lower  House,  that  I  ouse,  afer 
some  disoissioti,  ai;"eed  to  concur  in  the  judg- 
ment of  the  Upper  House,  leaving  the  reasons 
given  by  tne  bishops  out  of  the  question. 

The  bishops  of  tho  Irish  Church  have  unani- 
mously signed  a  reply  to  an  address  from  a  com- 
mittee of  laymen  in  favor  of  adherence  to  the 
established  usages  of  the  church,  and  against 
"excesses  of  ritual." 

Early  in  June  the  Queen  of  England  appointed 
a  commission  to  inquire  what  were  the  practices, 
orders  and  rubrics  of  the  Church,  and  the  true 
interpretation  of  the  same,  to  suggest  such  orders 
and  amendments  to  them,  additions  to  the  ser- 
Tice  and  iilterations  in  the  lessons  as  they  might 
deem  fit  and  proper.  The  Commission  consisted 
of  the  following  persons:  The  Archbishops  of 
Canteibunj  and  Armagh  ;  Earls  Stanhope,  Har- 
rowby,  an  i  Baiichamp  ;  the  Bishops  of  London. 
S.  Davids,  Oxford,  and  Gloucestrr  ;  Barons 
Portman  and  hhury,  Spencer  H.  Walpnle,  Ed- 
ward  Cardwell,  Sir  Joseph  Napier,  t^ir  iViUiam 
fage  Wuoil.  Sir  Robfrt  Joseph  Philtimore, 
Travfrs  Twiss.  John  l.'uke  CnUridge,  John  Abel 
Smith,  Alexander  James  Beresf'jrd  Bfren/ord- 
Hope,  Ji'lin  Gellibrand  HuObard,  Arthur  Pen- 
rhyn  Stanley,  Haivey  Goodwin,  Jam e  Arneranx 
Jeretnie,  Hubert  Payne  Suiith,  Henry  Venn. 
William  Gil. •inn  Humphrey,  Rub  rt  Gregory,  and 
Tnumas  Walter  Perry.  (The  names  given  in  Ital- 
ics are  supposed  to  be  High  Church  men).  On  the 
19.  of  August  they  rendered  their  first  report,  in 
regard  to  the  use  of  vestments,  to  the  effect  that 
they  considered  it  exj»edient  to  restrain  in  the 
public  services  of  the  United  Church  all  vari- 
ations in  r'spect  of  vesture  from  that  which  has 
long  been  the  established  usage  of  the  Church, 
and  that  this  may  be  best  secured  by  providing 
aggrieved  parishioners  with  an  easy  and  efifect- 
ual  process  for  complaint  and  redress. 

Incumbents  and  Curates  in  England, 

The  London  Times  gives  statistics  showing 
that  the  number  of  incumbents  in  the  Church  of 
England  has  increased  in  .1(1  or  40  years,  from 
60U0  to  about  13  ddO,  while  the  number  of  curates 
has  remained  stalionai-y,  at  about  50U0.  Thesi 
statistics  prove  the  growing  activity  of  the 
CMurch,  and  the  largt;  amount  of  work  done  by 
private  voluntary  effort,  in  founding  new  en- 
cumhencies  and  providing  livings.  No  corre- 
spouding  increase  has  been  made  in  the  number 


of  Bishops  which  is  now  nearly  the   same  as  threw 
hundred  years  ago. 

Clerical  Retreats. 

There  was  last  year  a  "retreat"  for  laymen  at 
St.  Barnabas.  Pimlico,  conducted  by  the  Rev.  E. 
D.  Cleaver,  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford.  The  work 
of  the  day  began  with  the  Holy  Communion  at  a 
quarter  to  nine,  and  devotional  exercises  of  vari- 
ous kinds  were  continued  without  intermis- 
sion until  about  a  quarter  to  eight  in  the  evening, 
allowing  three  quarters  «f  an  hour  for  breakfast 
and  two  hours  for  dinner  anb  recreation. 
Father  Ignatius. 

The  C'nuick  Sews,  states  that  "St.  Bartholo- 
mew's, Moorfields,  which  in  some  respects  has 
efficiently  helped  on  the  Citholic  revival,  is  so 
well  attended  since  the  Rev.  L.  Lyne  (Father 
l;-'natiu8)  became  assistant  clergyman,  that  the 
galleries,  unused  for  some  years,  have  been 
lighted  with  gas,_and  are  now  open  and  crowded 
every  Sunday."  ' 

Episcopal  Independence  in  Au.ftralia. 

The  synod  of  the  diocese  of  Adelaide,  South 
Australia  has  takes  a  practical  step  towards  the 
assertion  of  its  independence  of  the  Established 
Church  of  England,  and  towards  its  self-govern- 
ment as  an  Episcopalian  Church.  At  a  special 
meeting  it  formally  re^olved.  "That  it  is  not 
desirable  that  all  bishops  in  the  British  colonies 
shuuld  receive  their  mission  from  the  see  of  Can- 
terbury, and  take  the  oath  of  canonical  obedienca 
to  the  archbishop."  This  resolution  was  carried 
by  24  to  7.  By  another  resolution  it  was  decided, 
by  18  to  7,  that  it  was  desirable  that  future 
bishops  of  the  diocese  should  be  elected  by  tha 
diocese. 

Church  Congress  at  Wolverhampton. 

The  seventh  annual  session  of  the  Church  Con- 
gress was  opened  atWolverhampton  on  the  15.  of 
October.  A  large  number  of  jironiinent  men 
attended,  among  whom  were  several  Americaa 
3ish>>ps.  The  Bishop  of  Illinois  spoke  of  the 
necessity  of  sipplementing  secular  education  in 
th.!  United  States  by  religious  teachings.  The 
Bishop  of  Tennessee  deprecated  sectarianism,  or 
individualism  in  the  church,  and  expressed  his 
belief  that  the  church  was  the  only  power  that 
could  elevate  the  Freedmen  in  America.  During 
the  Congress  a  meeting  was  held  of  those  who 
favcied  ritualism. 

Division  nf  Dioceses. 

Wisconsin  is  divide<i  into  four  Convocations 
with  Deans,  and  with  express  reference  to  a 
future  division  into  yo«r  Sees  as  sjreedily  as 
possible,  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  having  given 
his  consent.  In  Indiana,  a  resolution  was  car- 
ried in  favor  of  the  ^ee  Eniscojiate,  small 
Dioceses,  and  the  Provincial  System  ;  and  the 
Assistant  Bishop  declared  himself  sti-ongly  in 
favor  of  dividing  Indiana  into  three  Dioceses. 

The  Maryland  Diocesan  Convention  have 
adoj'ted  » resolution  pi-oviding  for  the  division 
of  the  diccese.  and  the  erection  of  the  Eastern 
Shore  into  a  separate  Epi^cojial  See.  A  com- 
mittee was  appointed  to  determine  the  bound- 
aries of  the  new  dioce  e- 

In  Ohio  the  Convocation  of  Cleveland  unani- 
mously sent  in  a  petition  to  be  set  off  as  a  sepa- 
rate See.  The  Bishop  expresed  himself  rather 
uiifavoi-ableon  the  movement,  but  the  Diocesan 
Cnnvention  referred  the  subject  to  a  committee 
of  fifteen  to  report  next  year. 


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The  Diocesan  Convention  of  Western  Kew 
York  adoi.ted  a  report  in  favor  of  liirision.  The 
dividing  line  is  lo  follow  the  eastern  boundaries 
ef  Wayne.  Ontario,  Yates,  Schuyler,  and  S»eu- 
ben  couniica.  New  dioceses  are  al.-o  talked  of 
at  Brooklyn  and  Albany,  New  York,  and  at 
Readint:.  I'a. 

The  Bisliop  of  Nebra-ka  reports  three  churches 
DOW  being  erected  in  Dakota — the  only  ptares  of 
pu'ilic  worship  in  tiie  whole  Terrttury— which 
•hows  the  use  iif  gtviug  destitute  regions  a 
Bishop  of  their  own. 

The  Uijlmi)  of  Capetown  is  taking  measures 
for  a  subdivision  of  hia  South  African  diocese. 

Bishop  of  London's  Fund. 

Within  less  than  four  years  a  sum  of  £202,000 
hits  been  directly  subscribed  to  the  fuud,  and 
a  further  sum  of  about  £9(i,0UO  hus  been  promis- 
ed :  while  at  the  same  time,  independently  of 
the  fund,  £853,0(10  has  been  subscribed  by  pri- 
vate donors  toward  the  same  objects  ;  and  a 
further  sura  of  £.t30. 000  has  been  voted  by  the 
Ecclesiastical  Coivimissioners  toward  the  endow- 
ment of  small  liviii.;3  in  the  diocese.  By  means 
of  the  money  directly  subscribed  to  the  luiid, 
one  hundred  and  filteen  clergy  and  sixty-four 
lay  assistants  have  been  added  to  the  staff  of  the 
dioceie.  Grants  liave  been  made  for  fifty-seveu 
p^;rmanent  cliurches.  and  for  seventy-one  sites 
for  churches,  par»ona;,'es.  etc.,  while  a  sura  of 
£■28,668  has  been  voted  for  educational  purposes. 
This  statement  does  not  include  two  larse  do- 
nations of  £1500  and  £5000  appropriated  to 
churches  and  schools  in  two  parishes  speci- 
fied by  the  donors.  Dr.  Tait  remarks,  howevtr, 
that  notwithstiinding  the  exertions  already 
made,  there  remains  a  vast  population  as  yet 
not  rfaclie<l.  lu  order  to  secure  one  clergyman 
for  every  two  thousand  of  the  population,  there 
will  be  needed  twice  as  many  adilitiooal  clergy 
as  have  been  already  secured,  with  a  proportion- 
ate number  of  churches  and  schools. 

Board  of  Missions, 

It  appears  from  the  last  report  of  this  board, 
made  at  New  York  in  October,  that  at  home  the 
Bum  of  $'3ll,:<8().vil  was  paid  out  for  domestic 
missionary  labors,  and  $142.l3f)i.44  r^  ceiveii.  For 
Foreign  Missions  the  committee  show  the  follow- 
ing statement:  receipt-i,  etc.,  $8ii.fi04  68  ;  ex- 
penditure, fM  1. 694  39  :  while  the  report  of  the 
F-reedmen's  Cominis.'-io'i  shows  an  expenditure  of 
i30,3 19.42,  against  a  fuud  of  20,-.'23.54.  Over 
126,859  has  been  received  in  legacies  alone  for 
the  general  fund  of  the  mission. 

Deaconesses, 

At  a  con'erence  of  those  interested  in  the  ex- 
tension of  the  female  de.iconate,  under  the  Pre- 
si<ling  of  the  llishop  of  Kly,  the  Bishop  spoke 
favorably  of  the  proj^'ct,  in  which  he  had  earl.v 
interested  himself  and  h(i)ied  that  by  means  of 
wise  measures  tlie  ininistration  of  women  might 
be  restored  to  the  Church.  The  Rev.  T.  Pelhain 
Dale  gave  an  aci'ount  nf  the  effect  made  in  the 
diocese  of  London,  after  which  the  Bi-hop  of 
Gloucester  and  Bristol  moved  a  resolution,  to 
the  effect  that  it  was  desirable  to  extend  the 
movement  to  other  dioceses  which,  with  other 
resolutions  in  support  of  the  objects  of  the  meet- 
ings, was  adopted.  A  committee  was  appointed 
to  take  practical  steps  to  extend  the   movement. 


Roman  Catholics. 

It 

The  Italian  Deputation  to  the  Pope. 

On  the  evening  on  the  first  of  July  the  Pop« 
received  a  deputation  commi.<smned  to  present 
to  him  addresses  of  devot'on  from  one  hundred 
cities,  p-esented  through  Count  Baschetti,  the 
originator  of  the  project.  The  Count's  addresa 
was  not  regarded  as  friendly  to  the  Italian 
government.  The  Pope  replieil,  with  muetl 
emotion,  with  frequent  respotises  of  applause  : 

— "I  have  always  loved  Italy,  I  have  prayed 
for  her  happiness,  and  God  knows  my  affection 
for  her.  Nevertheless  I  must  coniemn,  and  I 
shall  ever  condemn,  the  efforts  that  are  made  io 
Italy  to  constitute  a  unity  without  cha-ity,  with- 
out justice,  a  unity  cursed  by  Gol.  I  desire  that 
the  rights  of  all  sliould  be  respected,  and  especial- 
ly those  of  the  church  ;  and  I.  therefore,  solemn- 
ly protest  against  the  violation  which  those 
rights  have  suffered.  I  am  deeply  touched  by 
so  many  demonstrations  of  affection  from  the 
veritable  chihiren  of  Italy.  This  album,  your 
presence  here,  are  to  me  solemn  aSiUrances  of 
the  piety  of  the  majority  of  Italians.  Bear  to  your 
families  and  your  cities  the  expression  of  my 
gratitude  and  my  special  benediction." 

A  Catholic  Church  in  Morocco. 

In  accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  treaty  of 
peace  between  Spain  ami  Morocco,  a  Roman 
Catholic  cathedral  has  been  erected  in  a  square 
near  the  centre  of  the  town  which  had  been 
known  as  the  Plaza  de  E-<pagiia  during  the 
Spanish  occupation  of  old  times.  The  church 
has  recently  been  completed,  and  has  attached 
to  it  a  mouastery  for  the  Franciscan  monks,  who 
are  charged  with  the  mission.  Immediately  ad- 
joining the  religious  edifice  is  the  Consular 
Palace,  the  whole  forming  a  very  imposing  pile 
of  buililiiigs.  The  19.  December,  1861).  being  the 
anniversary  of  Queen  Isaoella's  nirthday.  was 
selected  fiu'  the  solemn  npen'ng  of  the  church, 
and  the  ceremony  was  performed  in  the  presence 
of  theS'panish  Amba.^saiior,  Don  Francisco  Merry, 
and  the  principal  members  of  the  Legation. 
New  Bishoprics  in  Algeria. 

By  decree  of  the  French  Imperial  Government 
the  see  of  Algiers  has  been  raised  to  an  arch- 
bishopric, and  suffragan  dioceses  are  created  at 
C'onstautine  and  Oran.  Algeria  has  now  a 
Kuropean  (mostly  Roman  Cathol'c)  population 
of  230,000,  in  a  total  population  of  3,000.000. 
Progress  in  China. 

The  French  Ronran  Catholics  are  erecting  a 
cathedral  in  Pekin,  China,  the  towers  of  which 
are  of  such  height  that  they  overlook  the  im- 
perial palace. 

PassasUa. 

The  lender  of  the  "Liberal"  priests,  Signor 
Carlo  I'a>sai;lia.  who  drew  up  the  famous  Liberal 
p  tition  to  the  Pope,  and  succeeded  in  getting 
10,(100  jiriestly  signatures  to  it,  was  reported  to 
have  abjured  Liberalism  and  submitted  to  the 
Bishop  of  ilundovi. 

Missmnaries  in  China. 
We  learn  that  so  far  back  as  185-1.  after  an  In- 
finitude of  defeats  and  anxietie-,  the  Catholi* 
congregation  of  Fo-Teheou-Fou  rlaimed,  through 
the  medium  of  the  French  Minister,  the  rest 
itition  of  a  beautiful  church  built  in  the  interior 
of  that  province,  but  which  had  been  long  «se4 


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as  a  Pagan  temple.  "Our  rights",  says  the 
bishop,  "'having  iieen  recogcized,  and  the  man- 
darin refusing  to  ab.indon  this  temi>le,  they  gave 
us  in  exchange  a  spacious  territory,  situated  a- 
long  the  borders  of  the  river.  We  are  at  present 
engaged  laying  the  foundation  of  a  residence, 
and  when  we  have  collected  suflaeieat  funds,  we 
will  commence  building  a  church."  It  appears 
that  the  Dominican  FaMiers,  after  being  long 
exiled  from  Formosa,  have  been  able  at  length 
to  replant  their  feet  upon  that  beautiful  but  un- 
happy island.  They  had  the  con-o'ation  of 
baptizing,  in  the  course  of  the  year  1863,  fifty- 
two  adults,  ttie  first  fruits  of  the  renewal  of 
Christianity.  On  .June  29,  in  the  followiug  year, 
they  opened  a  little  seminary  in  the  village  of 
Ban-Kim-Ching.  Great- r  victories  than  these 
are  still  before  these  heroic  missionaries.— Ca^Ao- 
lic  Opinion. 

Japanese  Mission, 

The  Catholic  Church  has  strong  hopes  of  being 
permitted  to  reopen  its  missions  in  Japan.  They 
rest  upon  the  number  of  Christian  on  the  island, 
who  are  many,  it  being  rciiorted  that  there  are 
60,000  of  them  in  one  locality  alone. 

Persecution  oj  Catholics  in  Russia, 

The  Cologne  Gazette  says  that  the  Governor- 
Geueral  of  the  provinces  of  Fodolia  has  just 
published  a  ukase,  in  virtue  of  vhich  every 
Catholic  priest  wishing  to  preach  a  sermon  is 
bonnd  to  deliver  beforehand  to  the  censorship 
cf  the  police  a  manuscript  copy  of  his  discourse. 
Any  priest  acting  in  contravention  of  this  order 
is  to  be  liable  to  severe  penalties.  The  Kmperor 
Alexander  has  written  a  letter  to  the  Pope  in 
defence  of  hi^  policy  In  Poland  charging  the 
priesthood  with  "reprehensible  behavior",  with 
being  in  alliance  with  abtttors  of  disorder,  and 
saying  that  his  Holiness  ought  to  be  as  anxious 
as  he  to  bring  it  to  an  end  regretting  that  cir- 
cumstances had  jjievented  his  reception  of  a 
Nuncio,  and  expressing  his  readiness  to  accept 
such  au  envoy. 

Sunday  School  Uniomn  Niw  York, 

Th6  Sunday  schools  of  fifteen  churches  are 
cow  represented  in  the  Union.  The  total  num- 
bf-r  of  children  attending  these  schools  is  10,01)0, 
cf  which  5,500  are  boys,  and  4.500  girls,  under 
the  care  of  405  male  and  353  femiile  teachers. 
The  female  departments  of  six  of  tiie  schools, 
h  )wever,  are  not  included  in  the  above.  Thire 
are  he-ides  in  the  city  the  Sunday-tchools  of 
nineteen  chur-;!a2«  cit  yet  represented. 

The  Jesuits. 

This  order,  according  to  their  late'y  published 
»tati>tics  reckoned  at  the  close  of  I66t)  tour  con- 
E'stories  and  iwenty  provinces:  the  number  of 
loembers  being  Bltit,  sliowing  an  augmentation 
of  215  over  the  year  lbti5.  Inthei-reurh  pro- 
vince there  are  2422,  whereas,  in  18(15,  there 
were  only  22S6.  Not  withstanding  their  expulsion 
from  Naples.  Sicily,  Turin.  Vem-tia.  and  the 
Mexican  empire,  they  are  incessantly  increasing 
Li  number. 

Catholics  in  Venmarl. 

Catliolicisra  is  advancing  inDenmaik  under 
the  more  liberal  policy  of  the  government.  Still 
there  are  but  1500  Catholics  in  Coi  euhagen  out 
q\.  a  populalion  of  100,00  ), 


Catholics  in  Holland. 
Out  of  a  population  of  3,493.004,  Holland  has 
1,280.062  Ciithnlics.  an  iucrea-e  since  1860  uf 
5(1,00(1,  iOfi9  churches  and  chapels,  and  1801 
priests.  Over  6  lO  young  jieopie  have  entered 
the  military  service  of  the  p 'pe,  and  last  year 
400,00(1  fntncs  were  forwarded  to  the  pope  as  a 
New  Year's  gift. 

The  Hierarchy  in  Scotland. 

The  pope  proposes  to  re-establish  the  Roman 
Catholic  hiemrchy  in  Scotland,  hy  giving  terri- 
torial jurisdiction  to  the  vicars  apoatolio,  and  by 
the  appointment  of  other  bishops.  There  will 
be  an  Archbishop  of  Glasgow,  with  six  suff- 
ragans, who  will  take  their  respective  titles  from 
Edinburg,  Aberdeen,  Perth,  Inverness,  Stirling 
and  Kilmdrno.  's.. 

Congress  at  Inspruck. 
The  Roman  Catholic  Congress  of  Germany  as- 
sembled at  Inspruck,  the  Capital  of  Tyrol,  on 
September  9lh.  Ihc  number  present  was  500. 
The  German  Catholic  dignitaries  expected  did 
nut  attend. 

Congress  at  Malines. 

The  Congress  of  Malines  opened  its  third 
session  on  ihe  3.  of  September.  About  2000  mem- 
bers were  in  attendance.  Among  them  were  the 
Bishojisof  Orleans.  .=>f  Charle.-ton,  and  of  Van- 
couver, the  Patriarch  of  Anticch,  &c.  Great 
devotion  to  the  Holy  Fathf-r  inspired  the  Con- 
gress. The  Unity  of  the  Church,  the  means  of 
restoring  Ptussia  to  Unity,  and  the  comparison 
of  Catholic  with  Prote.stauts  propegandiem, 
were  prominent  subjects  of  discussion.  An  .ad- 
dress to  the  Pope  was  voted,  which  declared  the 
obj  ct  of  the  Congress  to  be  the  study  of  the 
wants  of  our  times  by  the  light  of  the  teaching 
of  t'le  Church.  Bishop  Lynch,  of  Charleston, 
spoke  of  the  rapid  increase  of  Catho  icism  in  the 
United  3  ates,  and  m.'\de  an  appeal  in  behalf  of 
the  spiritual  wants  ff  the  enaanchised  blacks, 
among  whom  he  said  were  159,000  Roman  Catho- 
lics. 

Th."  '^Reform  Movement"  in  Italy. 

The  Esamuialore,  a  religious  paper  published 
inFlore&ce,  gives  a  fuller  account  of  the  '-refurm 
movement"  inltaly  than  we  have  elsewhere  seen. 

Tiiere  are  two  schools  of  reformers,  whose 
headquarters  are  respectively  at  Naiilcs  an  I 
Florence.  A  society  called  •■the  National  Eman- 
cipation Society,"  pledged  to  open  opposition  to 
the  Papacy,  nambers  nearly  one  thousand  mem- 
bers. Their  organ,  Kmancipatore  Caitolico  is  a 
weekly  journal,  publislied  in  Napes,  which 
combines  politics  and  news  with  religion  and 
reform.  Men  disting-  ishcd  in  civil  life  and 
ecclesiastics  contribute  to  its  pages,  mos'Iy  ^ 
under  the  evil  of  secresy.  The  association  which^ 
this  paper  represents,  announce  as  features  of 
the  religious  reform  at  wliich  they  aim,  the 
restituiion  to  the  laity  of  their  ancient  rijihts  of 
el'.'Cting  the  parnchial  clergy  uid  administering 
the  temporal  affairs  of  lliechurcli;  the  independ- 
ence of  the  bishops  and  metroiiol'tans  of  the  see 
of  Kome,  and  the  abolition  of  every  oath  of 
vassalage  to  the  chair  of  St.  Peter ;  the  cessation 
of  the  enforced  celibacy  of  the  clergy  ;  the  free 
circulation  of  the  Holv  Scrip  ures'  among  all 
classes:  the  celebration  of  public  worship  in 
the  Iialian  language  ;  the  leaving  the  confess' 


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ionnl  optional    with  nil  ;  and  the  administration 
at  ilie  couiniuDion  in  both  kinds. 

R(fnan  Catholic  Clrrgy  in  Austria. 
The  foiluwin.'  ;uethe  members  of  clergy  in 
Austria;  lu  nil,  53,370.  Tliere  are.  1  I'jiinarch 
4  Primates,  11  Archnishops,  5H  Bishups,  24 
Assistant  liifhops,  i;!.bC3  I'arish  l'ries;s,  3119  or- 
dxinetl  I'rolesiors,  720  monasteries  with  59 
Abbots.  45  ►'roviucials,  fi,754  Priests,  654  Clercs, 
240  Candidates,  and  1917  Lay  Brethren;  25s 
nunneries,  with  5198  nuns.  The  value  of  the 
church  properly  is  185.()72.9fi8  llorius,  or  £18, 
567.n'j9.  and  the  incume,  19,1)39,713  llorins,  or 
$1,963,571. 

The  Eastern  Churches. 

Russiiin  Missionary  Society. 
The  Russian  Government  has  auihorized  the 
establishment  of  a  society  for  tlie  ^pread  of  the 
"orthodox"  .religion  am;iif,'  heathens.  Mussul- 
mans, and  I'uddhists,  in  tlieir  territory.  The 
operations  of  the  society  will  be  directed  in  the 
first  instance  lo  the  conversion  of  the  pagan 
tribes  in  the  Altai  and  Trans-Baikal  country, 
and  the  countTacting  of  Mussulman  ami  Bud- 
dhist propaganda  in  those  parts.  The  Caucasus, 
being  assif^ned  to  the  labors  of  a  special  society 
of  the  kind,  ise.^cluded  from  the  sphere  of  the 
present  one. 

Tke  Greeks  in  the  West. — Establishment  of  a 
Greek  Religious  Paper  in  Ungla'.d. 
One  of  the  strangest  of  the  many  extraordinary 
projects  of  the  day  is  that  for  setting  up  the 
Greek  Religion  in  the  West,  upon  the  ruins  of 
Roman  and  Protestant  communities,  which  those 
who  lead  tlie  movement  jirofess  to  regard  as 
alike  beyond  the  pale  of  catholicity,  and  as  fast 
approaching  dissoluti  n.  The  design  was  broach- 
ed some  time  ago  by  Dr.  J.  J.  OverbecU,  in  a 
book  entitled  Catholic  urthodoxy  and  Anglo- 
C'tthoUcism.  It  has  now  its  monthly  organ,  the 
Orth  dox  Catholic  Riview.  Union  between  the 
Greek  and  Knglish  Chuiches  is  con^ideced  by 
Dr.  Overheck  to  be  impos-iible.  "There  must 
be  no  illusions,"  he  says.  The  Orthodox  Church 
never  will,  nor  can  recognize  the  Anglican 
orders." 

Greek  Bishops  on  the  projected  Greek-  Anglican 
Union. 

It  appears  from  a  late  number  of  the  Pall  yfall 
Galrtte,  that  the  j)ariy  in  the  Kngtish  Church 
which  has  been  laboring  for  several  ^-ears  to 
bring  about  a  union,  or  at  least  a  recognized  in- 
tcrcouim  niou,  b-tween  that  church  and  the 
Greek,  still  entertains  sanguine  hopes  of  success. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Oriental 
AssociaiioM,  a  society  furi;ied  for  the  purpose  of 
proaiiitiiig  the  above  object,  encouraging  com- 
munications were  received  from  Rev.  .Messr. 
Pillow  and  Williams  Mr  Pillow  reported,  as 
one  of  the  n<)>t  important  events  of  the  past 
yeiir,  the  elevation  to  the  j.atriarchal  chair  of 
C'l-nnta'  tinop  e  of  a  prelate  acceptable  to  all 
who  desire  to  see  that  ollice  independent  of  the 
iutrigue~  of  statesmen  ami  ambassadors.  The 
new  pHtriHreh  of  the  Aiineniaus.  Gregory,  a  so 
showed,  he  said,  plain  imlicntions  of  a  disposit- 
ion favorab'e  lothe  recoiic  liation  ol  his  church 
With  theOrlhod..x  Kas'erii  Church. 

During  the  past  year  Mr.  Williams  had  like- 
wise the  opportunity,  during  his  journey  through 


the  East,  to  become  acquainted  with  most  dlf- 
tinguished  parsonages  among  the  Orthodox 
Eastern  clergy.  lie  had  conversed  with  the 
patriarchs  of  Constantinople,  Antioch  and  Jeru- 
salem, and  with  other  eminent  bishops  of  tha 
same  communion.  The  patriarchs  had  expressed 
their  entire  approbation  of  the  union  of  the 
churches.  Jlr.  Williams  declared,  moreover, 
that  the  Metropiliian  of  Scio  had  said  to  him, 
that  the  time  for  electing  commissioners  from 
both  sides  to  adjust  the  differences. between  them 
was  at  hand  ;  and  that  the  patriarch  of  Antioch 
had  assured  him  that  he  proposes  to  found  a 
school,  as  a  preparative  for  the  union,  and  he 
desired  to  obtain  an  Englishman  as  a  professor 
in  it,  that  the  members  of  it  might  learn  the 
English  language. 

Russian  Bible  Society. 
The  Russian  Bible  Society  has  been  recently 
organized  at  St.  Petersburg,  with  the  sanction  of 
the  Emperor  Alexander.  It  seems,  from  a  letter 
in  the  New  York  Olisemer  from  Rev.  W.  H. 
Bidwell,  that  various  attempts  have  been  made 
before  to  organize  such  a  . society  in  Russia,  but 
they  have  been  failures.  This  begins  its  career 
under  happy  ausidces.  The  first  Russian  Bible 
.Soci'-ty,  organized  under  the  auB|)ices  of  Alex- 
ander I., had  279  anxiliaries,  and  printed  and  cir- 
culated 801, 0(10  copies  of  the  Sciptures,  and  was 
still  makin;.'  successful  progress,  when  it  was 
suppressed  by  the  emperor  Nicholas. 

Tke  Greek  Church  in  Turkey. 
The  Greek  Church  in  Turkey,  having  secured 
a  civil  constitution  from  the  Porte  like  that 
granted  the  Armenians  has  forced  its  Patriarch 
to  resign  his  office.  He  was  elected  as  a  liberal 
and  a  patriot,  but  adopted  another  jiolicy,  and 
became  the  suppliant  tool  of  the  Turks.  The 
Porte  refused  to  accept  his  resignation  till  tha 
excitement  amorg  ihe  Greeks  and  perhaps  a 
hint  from  St.  Petersburg,  left  no  choice.  The 
people  went  furthe-,  and  restored  the  same 
liberal  patriarch  to  ofBce  whom  the  Porte  depos- 
ed many  years  ago. 

The  Greek  Catechism. 

G.  P.  Putnam  &  Son,  New  Yoi  k,  publishers, 
have  pubiishe'i  an  abridged  edition  of  the  Cate- 
chism of  tlie  Holy  Greek  Church  under  the 
sanction  and  by  the  request  cf  the  bishop  of 
Joua. 

Re/ormin  the  Armenian  Church. 
The  movement  for  a  reform  in  the  Armenian 
Church  gathers  new  interest  at  Constantinople, 
and  has  broken  forth  strongly  in  the  interior. 
The  publishers  of  the  new  Prayer  Book  in  the 
vernacular  have  made  .o  much  jirogress  in 
evaiigelical  sentiment,  that  during  the  time  of 
its  passing  through  the  press  they  have  can-t 
celled  some  of  the  earliest  pages  in.order  to  pre-(i 
sent  a  better  view  of  doctrine.  The  Patriarch  ' 
has  olKcially  deuounceil  the  book.  Some  of  the 
Armenian  newspapers  characterize  its  teachings 
as  Protestantism,  and  others  as  yet  are  non-com- 
mittal. The  effect  of  the  attacks  upon  it  thus 
lar  has  been  only  to  draw  attention  to  it  and 
stimulate  discussion  of  its  merits.  The  agitation 
is  producing  a  religious  ferment,  such  as  there 
has  not  been  before  for  twenty  years  in  Cou- 
siantinnple.  The  reformers  disclaim  the  name 
of  Protestant  ;  but  they  find  themselves  drawn 
towards  the  Protestants  ;  and  the  aid  and  com- 
fort giving  by  t.e  latter  is  having  a  good  in* 


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fluerce  on  the  Protestant  churches.  In  Karpoot 
th.B  ••Reform  Societies"  are  active  iu  pr-;ventiDg 
the  atteadance  of  adherents  to  tlie  Armeniau 
Church  on  Protestant  meetings.  The  reform 
movement  makes  rapid  progress  e-pecially 
among  the  young  men.  The  ProtestanH,  who 
receded  from  the  Armenl  inChurch  in  1817,  num- 
ber 15,000,  and  the  circulation  of  the  H.  de  and 
religious  books  among  those  who  remained  in 
the  church  has  led  the  whole  body  to  take  new 
views  of  the  teachings  and  practices  of  the 
church.  Many  priests  of  the  "enliglitened"  pany 
in  the  old  church  preach  evansre.ical  doctrine, 
and  this  party  has  forced  the  Porte  to  deprive 
the  Patriarch  of  his  temporal  power,  and  to  in- 
vest it  in  a  committee  of  laymen.  In  Smyrna 
and  Constantinople  they  are  especially  strong 
and  confident,  while  in  the  interior  stricter  lines 
are  drawn,  and  reformers  have  to  secede  and 
join  the  Protestant  party. 

Many  enter  into  the  scheme  for  political  rea- 
sons, as  the  Protestantizatiou  of  the  church  will 
secure  English  protection  for  the  Armenians, 
the  only  Ciiristian  sect  in  Turkey  who  have  no 
friends  abroad, 

Presbyterian. 

Old  School  Presbyterian  General  A  ssembli/. 
This  body  met  on  the  16.  of  May  at  Cincinnati. 
A  report  on  the  secessions  in  the  synods  of  Ken- 
tucky and  Missouri  was  adopted  by  a  vo.e  of 
207  to  6,  declaring  that  members  ami  churches 
would  be  received  back  on  their  application  ami 
declaration  of  willingnes-*  to  submit  to  the 
established  authority  of  the  church,  but  declin- 
ing followship  with  all  who  refuse  to  return  be- 
fore the  meeting  of  the  Presbytery  and  Synod 
next  spring,  and  that  they  would  be  considered 
as  having  voluntarily  withdrawn  from  the  com- 
munion. On  the  subject  of  union,  with  the  New 
School  Presbyterian  General  Assembly  the  ma- 
jority report,  favoring  reunion  on  the  basis  of  the 
report  of  the  joint  committee,  was  adopted.  A 
pastoral  letter  was  adopted,  deprecating  the  or- 
dinary desecrations  of  the  sabliath,  and  counsel- 
ling  ministers  and  elders  to  cultivate  in  their 
families,  and  in  all  over  whom  their  iufluenec 
extends,  just  and  scriptural  views  of  the  sacred 
ness  of  the  day,  and  recommending  to  jiastors  to 
preach  as  often  as  convenient,  on  tii.'  proper 
observance  of  the  sabhath.  The  collections  for 
the  disabled  minister's  fund  were  reported  at 
$i7,000-$5liOO  moie  than  last  year.  At  the  sug- 
gestion of  the  Presbytery  of  Chicaijo,  the  as- 
eeuibly  decided  to  call  upon  the  Prpsb>  teries  to 
report  the  numbers  of  unbaptized  children  whose 
parents  are  members  of  the  communion. 
N  w  School  General  Assemhit/. 
This  bodv  met  at  Rochester,  N.  Y,,  May 
I6th.  The  reports  of  committees  were  all  favor- 
able. The  standing  committee  on  the  Erection 
of  Churches  reported  one  hundred  churches 
without  buildings  of  their  own,  mid  r  com- 
meniled  that  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  be 
rai^ed  to  as-ist  in  providing  buildings.  The  re- 
port on  Union,  of  the  joint  committee  of  the  two 
assemblies  was  appi^oved.  The  matter  of  con- 
Btitutional  changes  was  referred  back  to  the 
joint  committee  to  report  to  the  assembly  of 
18f)8.  The  report  of  the  standing  coiumittee  on 
Publication  states  ihat  the  iiublication  scheme 
has  become  a  fixed  fact,  and  a  success.  The 
permanent  committee  on  Sabbath  Schools  was 


I  made  a  distinct  executive  body  to  carry  out  the 
Sabbath  School  work. 

The  Party  of  the  "  Declaration  nf  Testimony." 
Those  Old  School  Presbyterians  in  Ken- 
tucky and  Missouri  who  have  put  themselves  in 
opposition  to  the  deliverances  of  the  Old  School 
Presbyterian  General  Assemblies  on  the  subject 
of  loyalty  and  slavery,  have  been  known  under 
the  name  of  the  •'  Declaration  and  Testimony  " 
party,  as  in  1865  they  published  their  views  in 
a  document  called  '•A  Declaration  and  Testi- 
mony." The  .Synods  of  Kentucky  and  Missouri 
were  in  1867  fully  dissolved,  one  party  remain- 
ing in  connection  with  the  Old  School  Presbyte- 
rian General  Assembly,  and  the  other  refusing 
to  surrender  the  position  taken  by  their  "  Dec- 
laration and  Testimony."  The  latter  were  di- 
vided on  the  question  whetlier  it  was  expedient 
to  join  the  Southern  Presbyterian  General  As- 
sembly, but  it  was  expected  that  a  majority 
would  ultimately  adopt  that  course. 

Cumberland  Presbyterians. 

The  General  Assembly  of  the  Cumberland 
Presbyterian  Church  met  at  Memphis  on  the 
Ifith  of  May.  The  most  vexed  question  which 
engaged  attention  was  the  deliverance  of  la<t 
year  concerning  slavery  and  rebellion,  which 
was  regarded  by  some  members  as  reversing  the 
dfliverance  of  preceding  years,  and  as  signs  of 
undue  conversion  to  pro-slaviry  tendencies. 
The  matter  was  settled  by  the  adoption  of  a  res- 
olution that  this  deliverance  did  not  repeal  the 
decisions  of  former  assemblies,  and  that  neither 
this  decision  nor  those  of  the  former  assemblies 
Could  beset  up  as  tests  of  membershiii  unless, 
they  were  referred  to  the  Presbyteries  and  ap- 
proved by  them.  The  assembly  adopted  a  reso- 
lution referring  the  subject  of  the  moral  and  re- 
ligious treatment  of  the  black  men  to  the  st  ind- 
ing  committees  on  Education  and  Missions. 
United  Presbyterians. 

At  the  general  assembly  of  the  United  Pres- 
byterian Church,  favorable  reports  were  receiv- 
ed from  the  foreign  missions.  The  Board  of  Ed- 
ucat  on  reportfc-d  that  f.rty  young  men  had  been 
assisted  during-the  year, "eighteen  of  them  en- 
gaged in  littrary  and  twenty-two  in  a  theologi- 
cal course  of  study.  An  appropriation  was  vo- 
ted to  carry  on  the  missions  to  the  freedmen,  and 
the  bi  ard  ytvre  instructed  to  inquire  into  the 
feasibility  of  forming  a  connection  with  the 
American  Union  Freedme-n's  Commission.  The 
most  exciting  subject  which  came  before  the 
assembly  was  the  '•  McCune  case."  Mr.  McCune 
Has  condemned  for  holding  views  lavorable  to 
ojien  communion  and  on  the  requisites  of  church 
memljership  which  were  regarded  as  at  variance 
with  the  standards  of  the  church. 

Reformed  Presbyterians. 

At  the  last  meetins-  nf  the  General  Synod 
of  the  Reformed  Presbvterian  Church,  it  was 
stilted  that  a  disintegiaiion  of  the  Synod  had 
Ijeen  steadily  going  on,  and  that  it  was  falling 
off  in  members,  ministers^  an. I  churches.  Two 
churches  of  the  Western  Synod  had  dis-olved, 
and  two  others  had  given  notice  of  an  intention 
to  act  similarly  if  not  provided  with  ministers. 
Associate  Reformed  Presbyterians  in  the  South, 
•  There  are  signs  of  a  continued  and  vigorous 
existence  of  the  Associate  Reformed  Church  ia 
the  South.  Negotiations  for  a  ui  ion  wiih  the 
Souihevn  Presbyterian  chuich,  which  have  beeu 


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going  on  for  year?,  hfire  been  dropped,  and  the 
A.  R.  Synod  of  the  Sou.h  has  turned  Itj  atten- 
tion to  it4  own  npiiroiiriate  worlt.  It  has  re- 
vived its  paper,  fonneily  the  Due  West  Telrs 
ropr,  under  the  uaino  of  the  Atsociate  Reformed 
Prtahyterian, 

United  Presbyterian  Synod  of  Scotland. 

Tlie  United  Presbyterian  Synod  of  Scotland, 
at  its  raeetin);  in  Kdiiil)U  t:h,  in  JIay.  decided, 
after  a  full  ili.-ciission,  to  adhere  to  its  decision 
in  1658,  aitaiiist  the  use  of  orjrans  in  the  church- 
es. A  motion  off  red  hy  Dr.  Cairns,  on  union, 
d  claring  satis'action  at  Ihe  amount  of  harmony 
8ubsis(iii«  between  tl'e  nejjotiatiiig  churches, 
expressing  the  opinion  that  there  is  no  insuper- 
able bar  to  union  In  their  distinctive  principles, 
and.  in  that  belief,  reappointing  the  committee 
t)  prosecute  th'-  negotiations,  was  adopted  by  a 
vote  of  389  to  39. 

The  Sci.ttisk  Presbyterian  Ckurche*. 

The  points  of  difference  between  the  bran- 
ches of  ilie  Presbyterian  church  in  Scotland  are 
thus  stated  in  a  letter  from  Mr.  Bryant  to  the 
New  Y-trk  Ev  >ii»s  Post:  "The  Presbyte- 
rians of  the  Ksiablislied  Church  not  only  claim 
that  public  worship  should  be  supported  by  the 
Government,  but  allow  the  Government  to  in- 
terfere with  certain  ecclesiastical  matters,  ami 
permit  the  pastoral  charge  of  parishes  to  be 
given  by  laymen  to  their  friends.  The  Presby- 
terians of  tlie  Free  Church  insist  th.at  the  Church 
ought  to  be  supported  by  the  Government,  but 
deny  the  right  of  the  latter  to  interfere  iu  any 
ecclesiasiical  concerns.  The  United  Presbyte- 
rians insist  that  the  Government  should  have 
nothing  to  do  with  the  Church,  either  with  sup- 
por  ing  its  min'sters  or  in  any  other  manner. 
Presbyterians  of  the  Reformed  Church  not  only 
agree  with  the  Unit-d  Presbyterians  in  these  re- 
spects, but  insist  that  until  the  temporal  sover- 
eign of  thec'untry  becomt»3  i)ledi;ed  to  the  cov- 
enant there  is  no  obligation  on  the  part  of  the 
subject  to  obey.  This  sect  is  very  small,  and, 
notwithstanding  the  ajiparently  disloyal  tenet  I 
liave  mentioned,  is  composed  of  persons  as  obe- 
dient to  the  laws  and  the  civil  authority,  an^i  as 
orderly  in  their  Conduct,  as  either  of  the  oth- 
ers." 

The  Esta'dished  Church  does  not  favor  the 
propxitions  for  a  uulon  of  the  unendowed 
c  lurches,  fearing  a  weakening  of  its  own  polit- 
ical influence  couseciuent  upon  the  consumma- 
tion of  the  union.  Propositions  have  been  of- 
fered in  Presbyteries  of  that  branch  to  create  a 
diveision  by  encouraging  in  the  Free  Church 
hopes  that  the  Kstiliii-hed  Church  might  offer 
tliem  terms  of  union  with  iiself  which  the  Free 
Cliurch  could  consider,  but  such  suggestions 
receive  no  favor  iu  theassemblies  of  that  liraich. 

The  General  Assembly  of  the  Free  Church, 
at  its  last  session,  adopted  a  resolution  directing 
the  committee  on  union  to  continue  their  inijui- 
ries  whether  tlie  questions  of  worship,  goveru- 
ment,  and  discipline  were  a  suflicient  bar  to 
Union  b-iween  the  unendowed  ciiurches.  The 
peueial  seiitimcnt  of  tiie  assembly  eviilently  was 
that  they  were  uoi,  and  the  vote  taken  was  in 
favor  of  union. 

The  United  Presbyterian  Synod  adopted  a 
resohuion  of  similar  eCTticl. 

The  meetings  of  ihe  committee  of  the  four 
bodies  have  been  resum-d.  A  leviow  of  the 
proceedings  of  their  Syno.ls  on  the  reports  of 
lijeir  previous  uegotialiuu4  cucuura^ed  them  to 


persevere  lo  their  work.  It  was  agreed  to  con- 
sider first  the  subjects  of  finance  and  church 
I)ro|)erty,  and  the  titles  to  the  latter  in  its  bear- 
ings on  the  question  of  an  incoriiorated  union. 
Sub-committees  Were  ajipuinted  io  consult  with 
legal  gentlemen  on  various  branchesof  the  sub- 
ject, anil  report  at  a  meeting  of  the  joint  com- 
mittee to  be  held  towards  the  close  of  October. 
Notice  was  given  of  an  intention  to  move  for  the 
apoointment  of  a  sub-committee  to  consider 
what  sliould  be  done  in  the  matter  of  a  unioi 
between  that  portion  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
Church  situaed  in  England  and  the  Kuglisb 
Presbyterian  Church. 

Congregationalista. 

American  Congregational  Union. 
The  Fourteenth  Annual  Business  Meeting  of 
this  Society  was  held  in  Brooklyn  on  Thursilay, 
May  9th.  The  Secretary's  re))ort  stated  that 
during  the  past  year,  through  the  instrumental- 
ity of  the  Union,  the  Congregational  Clerical 
Union,  consisting  of  Congi  egatioual  ministers 
in  New  York  and  vicinity,  has  been  organized, 
a  convenietit  place  provided  at  the  Bible  House, 
where  ministers  of  the  denomination  may  meet, 
and  a  special  effort  has  been  made  to  promote 
the  work  of  church  education.  In  this  latter 
work,  the  receipts  have  been  double  those  of 
any  year  except  under  the  special  effort  of  18fi6. 
The  most  prominent  churches  in  the  South 
which  have  received  aid  have  been  in  Balti- 
more, New  Orleans.  Memphis,  .^tlan  a,  ami  thir- 
teen churches  in  Missouri.  The  seven  Western 
•states  of  Kansas,  Missouri,  Minuesota,  Iowa, 
Wisconsin,  Illinois,  and  Michigan,  contain  816 
Congregational  churches.  During  these  ten 
years  this  Union  has  aided  in  paying  for  the 
building  of  more  than  one-fourth  of  all  these 
churches.     The  Treasurer's  report  stateil  : 

Receipts  of  the  year,  total $32,530.22 

Balance  over  last  year 67,119.  .8 

Total  funds  for  the  year $9J,fi4i).40 

The  total  amount  of  appropriations  piid 
feeble  churches,  $83  790.44.  Amount  voted,  but 
yet  unpaid,  waiting  for  the  erection  of  build- 
ings, $'23,200.  Amount  loaned  feeble  churches, 
$2,700. 

Congregatio?ial  Union  of  Canada. 
The  number  of  ministers  connected  with  the 
Unloti  is  about  70  ;  the  uumber  of  clan  ches  94, 
with  a  membership  of  about  4.(lt'0.  and  147 
preaching  stations.  They  have  81)  church  edi- 
lices,  witii  2ll,5iO  sittings,  and  12.4117  ''adher- 
ents," and  3. &90  enrolled  Sabbath  school  schol- 
ars. Tliey  have  a  colleL-e  in  .Montreal  for  rais- 
ing up  ministers  for  their  domestic  ms--ionary 
Work.  As  yet,  however,  it  numbers  but  four  or 
live  students,  and  has  but  one  Professorship. 

Congregationalism  in  Missouri. 

There  has  grown  up  on  the  soil  of  .Missouri 
a  General  Conference,  wi'h  three  district  asS'i- 
ciations,  embracing  about  thirty  churches  and 
more  than  ti.irty  ministers.  At  the  second  an- 
nual meeting  of  the  conference,  eigh  een  new 
churches,  with  their  ))astors,  were  rec-ived  into 
membership,  and  three  new  district  associa- 
tions were  recognized. 

The  first  church  of  the  ord»v  was  organized 
in  \SM.  near  t'ilot  Knob,  which,  by  the  force  of 
cireonista'ice-:,  was  changed  to  a  Presbyterian 
bhurch  iu  Ibjj  :  the  sucuud  was  o:gauized  at 


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St.  Louis  in  1852  ;  the  third  atHaiiniba  in  1859. 
Tivo  German  churches  were  organized  subse- 
quently at  Canton  and  Lagrang-,  which  have 
become  extinct.  In  1864  t^vo  Welsh  churches 
were  organized  at  Sevier  and  New  Cambria 
Up  to  January,  1865,  this  was  the  extent  of  the 
efTort  to  organize  churches  of  tliis  order  in  the 
State. 

In  October,  1865,  the  churches  numbered 
eighteen,  with  five  hundred  and  thirty-seven 
members.  Since  tlien  there  have  been  organ- 
ized eleven  more,  malting  twenty-nine  in  all. 
Twenty-two  of  these  churches  are  north  of  the 
Missouri  river,  and  seven  are  south  of  it.  The 
number  of  ministers  is  now  thirty-one,  against 
twenty  a  year  ago. 

Congregational  Union  in  England. 

At  the  semi-annual  meeting  of  the  Congre- 
pational  Union  of  England,  held  in  London, 
May  7,  the  discussion  on  the  admission  of  Hap- 
lists  to  membership  resulted  in  the  adoption  of  a 
resolution  in  favor  of  it.  by  a  very  large  major- 
ity. The  resolution  contained  an  expression  of 
adlierence  to  the  doctrines  of  the  hurches  of 
the  Union  on  infant  baptism.  Resolutions  were 
also  adopted  protesting  against  the  growth  of 
ritualism  in  the  established  Church. 

Congregationalists  and  Secret  Societies, 

The  Western  Congregationalists,  in  conference 
at  Ottawa,  III.,  have  adopted  a  series  of  strong 
resolutions  agaiostFree  Masonry  and  other  secret 
institutions,  for  these,  among  other  reasons: 
because,  while  clniming  a  religious  character, 
they,  in  their  rituals,  deliberataly  withhold  all 
recogni  Jon  of  Christ  as  their  only  Saviour,  and 
Christ  anity  as  tlie  only  true  religion  ;  because 
I  while  they  are,  in  fact,  nothing  but  restricted 
partnerships  or  companies  for  mutual  insurance 
and  protection,  they  ostentatiously  parade  this 
characterless  engagement  as  a  substitute  for 
brotherly  love  and  true  benevolence;  because 
they  brins  gond  men  into  confidential  relations 
with  bad  men,  and  because,  while  in  theory  they 
supplant  theChurch  ofChr  i»t,  they  do  also,  in  fact, 
Iar:;ely  tend  to  Withdraw  the  sympathy  and 
active  zeal  of  professing  Christians  from  their 
respective  churches.  The  General  Association 
of  Illinois  also  adapted  a  strong  report  against 
Secret  Societies,  chiefly  directed  against  Ma- 
sonry. 

Congregationalism  in  Louisiana, 

Mr.  Charles  Van  Norden  was  ordained  pastor 
of  the  first  Congregational  church  of  New  Or- 
leans, Louisiana,  on  Wednesday,  December  10., 
Ib66.  This  is  the  first  Congregational  Church 
of  Louisiana. 

Reformed  Churches. 

Liturgical  Controversy  in  the  German  Reformed 
Church. — Meyerstown  Convention, 
The  German  Reformed  Church,  lilce  the 
Anglicans  and  theLutherans, are  troubled  with  an 
agitation  on  ritualism.  A  convention  of  mem- 
bers of  the  Church,  which  was  called  at  Meyers- 
town.  Pa.,  on  the  24.  of  September,  took  ground 
against  ritualism,  and  condemned  some  of  the 
features  of  the  "Revised  Liturgy"  as  at  variance 
with  the  old  liturgies,  and  witn  the  Heidelberg 
Catechism  and  the  Word  of  God.  Upon  the  reso- 
lution of  the  Meyertown  Convention  being  pre- 
s  nted  to  the  Eastern  Synod  at  Baltimore,  that 
body  pronounced   the  Courention  and  its  pro- 


ceedings irregular  and  schismatic,   and  warned 
the   members  of  the  church  against  attending 
meetings  "'calculated  to  interfere  with  the  peaca 
and  prosperity  of  the  Church." 
Ciia'<geof  yame  of  tiie  Dutch  Reformed  Church, 

The  proposition  to  change  the  name  of  the  Re- 
formed Dutch  Church  in  the  United  States  by 
striking  out  the  word  "Dutch"  has  been  voted 
on  by  all  the  classes  but  one.  Twenty  five  have 
recorded  themselves  in  favor  of  it,  and  six 
ag^aiast  ii.  Those  voting  in  favor  of  the  church 
were  :  HoUaml,  Albany.  Paramus,  Rensselaer, 
Schoharie,  Hudson.  Saratoga,  Greene,  Schenect- 
ady, Long  Island,  (South).  Mootiromery.CavuL'a, 
Kingston,  Geneva,  Passaic,  Michigan,  Mon- 
mouth, Karitan,  Illinois,  Foughkee,  sie.  South 
New  York,  Westchester,  South  Bergen,  Phila- 
delphia, Orange.  Those  voting  against  were: 
Bergen.  Wisconsin,  New  York,  .Sew  Brunswick. 
North  Long  Island.  Ulster.  The  subj'Ct  h,ii  yet 
to  he  acted  on  finally  by  the  ^^ynod.  In  a  to.al 
cf  681  votes  cast  the  majority  in  favor  of  the 
amendment  is  371.  The  vote  at  the  General 
Synod  had  been  ayes  102,  noes  7. 
The  Reformed  Churches  of  France. —  The  Ortho- 
dox and  Liberal  Partits, 

A  decree  of  the  Consistory  of  Caen  requiring 
all  Protesiant  electors  to  assent  to  the  Apostles 
Creed,  before,  excited  much  opposition  on  the 
part  of  the  liberal  division  of  the  French  Pro- 
testants. It  was  finally  annuIU'd  bv  the  minis- 
ter of  worship  M.Baroche.  who  basel  his  decision 
on  the  fact  that  the  Central  Council  of  the 
Church,  a  body  selected  bi/  th-  Government, 
several  years  ago,  declared  that  the  certificate 
of  admission  to  communion  was  sufficient  evi- 
dence of  the  candidate's  standing. 

To  get  rid  of  this  and  other  difficulties,  the 
principal  Consistories  demand  that  the  Govern- 
ment shall  convoke  a  General  Synod  of  the 
Church.  This  body  has  not  met  since  the  be- 
ginning of  the  French  Revolution.  Several 
eminent  men  have  asked  an  audience  of  the 
Emperor,  in  order  to  secure  its  convocation.  The 
elevation  of  Dr.  Grandpierre  to  the  Presidency 
of  the  Consistory  of  Paris,  and  of  the  Rev. 
D'Hombres  to  a  ]iastorate  of  Paris,  in  spite  ol  the 
claims  of  the  Messrs.  Coquer<il  (Liberal),  is 
regarded  by  the  Liberals  as  further  separating 
them  from  the  orthodox  party. 

The  Reformed  Church  of  Geneva, 

The  election  of  the  Consistory  of  the  National 

Church  in   Geneva  this    year   resulted   in   the 

triumph  of  the  orthodox  party.    The  Consistory 

is  chosen  for  four  years. 

Lutherans 

The  Split  in  the  Lutheran  Church  in  the  United 
States. 
Some  of  the  Lutheran  Synods  have  withdrawn 
from  the  General  Synod,  in  order  to  take  part  in 
firmation  of  a  new  organization,  the  ••General 
Council",  The  proceedings  of  the  first  meeting 
of  this  council  we  rci-ort  elsewhere.  The 
old  "General  Synod"  will  endeavor  to  establi  h 
congregations  in  the  territory  of  the  seceded 
Synods.  Thus  the  Lutherans  will  soon  be  divid- 
ed all  over  the  United  States  into  an  Old  Schnol 
and  New  School  organizntion.  Several  parli-^Uiar 
Synods  have  dissolved  one  part  siding  with  the 
General  Counc;!  and  the  other  witu  the  General 
Synnd. 


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The  MilUnayian  CoDtrnvniy. 

The  Confessional  [.utliernns.  who  nowentJeavor 
to  effect  a  new  orgiinlziition  in  llils  country  in 
oppiisiiion  to  the  present  ''General  Synod." 
wliicli  they  repudiate  on  account  of  its  Low 
Cliurch  pliitfuim,  are  dividid  amon','  themselves 
OD  the  8ul>ject  uf  Milleuarianism.  Tne  L  itiieran 
hynoil  01  Missouri  has  expelled  tlie  llev.  Mr. 
Schieferdoclter,  one  of  tlie>r  oldest  mini-ters,  on 
the  Krouiid  of  his  having  becoms  entangled  in 
the  web  of  Milleuarianism,  which  is  condemned 
by  the  seventeenth  article  of  tlie  Augsburg  Con- 
fession, and  the  Smaller  Catechism. 

The  Pennsylvania  Synod,  on  ilie  other  hand, 
the  first  which  last  year  withdrew  from  the  old 
Ueneral  Synod,  has  tolerated  and  honored  pro- 
minent Milleuarians  in  its  connection,  the  l?oard 
of  its  .Seminary  electing  one  of  them  its  Presi- 
dent. 

Secret  Sorietiet. 

The  Lutheran  says  :  "It  is  estimated  that  not 
less  tlniu/uur-JiUlis  of  the  male  members  of  the 
German  Lutheran  Churches  in  the  Eastern  cities 
belong  to  some  secret  order — such  as  the  Odd 
Fellows,  R"d  Men.  Turners,  and  tne  like.  The 
Synoiis  which  will  organize  the  new  "General 
Council''  are  generally  in  favor  of  excluding 
members  of  Secret  Societies  fiom  the  Churcli. 
Every  one  of  these  will  have  to  be  excommuni- 
cated, or  renounce  their  connection  with  these 
societies,  before  they  can  become  an  integral 
part  of  the  General  Council. 
The  Lutherans  of  Germany. — Tie  Vnion  and 
Close  Coimnwdon  Questions. 

The  Religious  Jovirnals  of  Germany  are 
occupied  in  the  discussion  whether,  in  the  Pro- 
testant countries  recentl.v  annexed  to  Prussia 
the  Lutheraa  and  Ktformcd  Cliurches  are  to  re- 
main separate  or  to  be  forced  into  one  united  ' 
church,  as  they  have  been  throughout  the  old 
realm.  The  principal  opposition  comes  from  the 
Lutheran  church,  and  is  strongly  nianil'ested 
in  Hanover  where,  at  a  conference  of  55U  Luth- 
eran clergymen  held  in  July,  the  vast  majority 
expressly  aporoved  a  resolu;ion  declaring  it 
wrong  to  admit  members  of  the  lieforraed 
church  to  the  Lord's  Table  in  Lutheran  churches. 

Moravian. 

Foreign  Missions. 

The  Moravian  publlshi  s  the  following  statistic- 
al summary  of  the  Foreign  .Missions  of  the  Mor- 
avian Church  for  the  year  ending  August,  1867. 

1.  Mismoiis. — Number  of  mission  provinces, 
15:  stati  ns,  88;  prtaching-places.  307. 

a.  L'tbnrers, — Number  of  missionaries,  160; 
female  assistaDts,  151— total  of  laborers  sent  out 
by  the  Church  at  home,  311  ;  number  of  ordain- 
ed native  missionaries,  7  ;  native  assistants  (as 
far  as  reported),  -58(i  ;  female  do.  do.,  407  ; 
Scrijiture  readers.  13;  le.aders  of  meetings,  45  ; 
whole  number  of  native  laborers,  1(152.  Whole 
number  of  Uborers,  native  and  foreign  (as  far 
as  reported),  1303. 

3.  tichnols. — Mumber  of  training  schools,  7  ; 
rtation  do.,  8ll;  country  do.,  65;  Sundav  do.,  86; 
Whole  nnrnbrr  of  schools.  238  Scholars  in  sta- 
tii'ii  and  cou»tiy  schools,  12,904:  in  Sunday 
schools  (children  and  adults),  11,852.  Whole 
number  or.>cli'>lars  (as  far  as  reported).  24.746. 
n-'roin  Surinam  there  are  no  figures  in  the  re- 
port on  tbit  point,     la  1865  the   wholej  number 


of  scholars  w.as  2339).  Vumher  of  male  teachers 
(natives)  117,  female  do.  75;  monitors,  498; 
Sunday-school  teachers,  1090.  Whole  number 
of  teachers,  1781). 

4.  CO'iv-rts. — Xumher  of  baptized  members, 
32,801  ;  cainldates.  7167.  Whole  number  of 
adult  converts.  3J.y6fi;  number  of ''Xew  People"', 
4401  ;  nuiuiier  under  discipline,  2336  ;  baptizeil 
c'lildren.  23.6i)6.  Whole  number  of  persons 
under  instruction,  70'311. 

5.  The  Financial  Statement.— T\\e  total  re- 
ceipts from  all  sources  during  the  pist  year 
were  100,280  Germin  dollars;  the  total  expenses 
118.072;  from  the  Continent  of  F.urope  there 
Were  leceived  51.4i5  ihalers;  fromOreat  Britain, 
38,087  :  from  America,  10.164. 

The  missions  are  located  in  Australia  (com- 
mencfd  1849),  3  stations;  West  Himalaya  (com- 
menced 1853),  2  stations;  Surinam  (commenced 
1735).  12  stations;  West  Indies  (c  .m'Uenceil  1732), 
40  stations;  South  Africa  (commenced  1736.  re- 
newed 1792).  12 stations;  Green  and  (comiu-'nced 
1733),  6  stations;  Labrador  (commenced  1770). 
5  stations;  The  Mosquito  coast  (commenced 
1648),  6  stations.  North  American  Indians. 
The  Northern  Synod. 

At  the  last  session  of  the  Northern  Provincial 
Synoti  of  the  Moravi:in  Church,  held  in  P/)ila- 
deljihia  in  May  last,  the  Committee  upon  Home 
.Missions  repo  ted  the  succ  ss  of  the  Moraviaa 
work  among  the  Germans  in  New  York,  the 
erection  of  a  Moravian  church  in  Pliilailelphia, 
and  c  mdiLiooally  appropriated  a  sum  of  money 
towards  the  erection  of  a  Moravian  church  in 
New  Haven,  Conn  Tne  Synod  approved  the 
use  of  the  Kuglish  version  of  the  Liturgy  for  the 
Lords's  f-ujiper,  directed  the  clergy  to  wear  the 
surplice  at  Hie  celebration  of  this  sacrament,  and 
enjoined  upon  the  Congregations  to  give  the 
"right  hand  of  fellowship"  at  the  beginning,  ancr 
again  at  the  close  of  the  celebration. 

United  Evangelical  Church,  of  Ger- 
many. 

Missions. 
Th2  Central  Committee  for  Home  Missions  In 
Germany  has  directed  its  eflbrts  to  that  vast 
population  of  Germany  who  go  away  from  home 
at  certain  periods  of  the  year  to  work  ;  to  tne 
workmtn  in  tlie  sugar  factories  of  saxony,  and 
to  the  miners  near  the  Rriine.  Ihe  sei  retary  and 
the  travelling  preachers  muke  yearly  journeys 
to  advance  the  ohject  of  the  society,  and  now 
propose  t .  give  attention  to  .Vustria,  particularly 
to  the  I'rotestants  scatte  ed  among  the  Catholic 
populations,  especially  in  Boheinia.  The  com- 
mittee has  its  seat  at  H.imburg.  and  includes 
anion;,'  its  membera  some  of  the  must  eminent 
men  of  Gernimy.  Its  income  is  about  lu,UOO 
thalers,  or  £1500. 

The  Evani^elical  Cliurch  Diet  of  Germtny. 
The  Evangelical  Church  Diet  met  this  year  at 
Kiel.  Ihe  President,  Prolessor  llerrniann.  of 
Gotiingen,  delivered  a  lecture  on  "CoufeSsion 
and  the -Sale  Church,"  in  wliich  he  dwell  on  the 
historical  development  of  the  Lutheran  and  K:- 
formed  Churches,  ami  showed  that  the  territorial 
principle  had  been  of  scarcely  less  inlluence  tlian 
t'leir  respective  confessions  in  markiimoul  their 
course  tlirough  the  centuries.  Pi  of.  D.irner,  ot 
Berlin,  delivered  a  lecture  ou  "Justification  by 


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Paith  in  Christ ;  its   importance  for  Christian 
KnovrleJge  aud  Christiau  Life." 

The  Gustavus  Adolplius  Association. 
This  Society,  for  supporting  Protestant  con- 
gregations in  Koman  Catholic  countrie-i.  is  one 
in  whicli  most  parties  of  tlie  German  churches 
unite.  Jt  met  in  1867  at  Worm-i.  The  reports 
of  the  cooperators  revealed  a  state  of  great  re- 
ligious destitution.  Among  the  subjects  which 
received  attention,  were  the  Protectant  "Dias- 
pora" in  Austria,  and  the  wants  of  the  Paris 
nssociation  for  the'  evangelization  of  France. 
The  receipts  for  the  year  1806-7  are  177,526 
thalers.  The  Female  Unions  have  greatly  in- 
creased their  contributions,  wliile  there  has 
been  an  inc -ease  of  10  new  female  unions  and 
31  auxiliaries  to  the  parent  society.  The  num- 
ber of  congreifatious  aided  is  800 ;  IS  new 
churches  have  been  built;  and  besides  the  23 
churches.  8  schools,  and  6  parsonages  in  course 
of  erection,  it  isdesigmd  to  build  117  churches, 
6  chapels,  109  schools,  and  55  parsonages. 

The  German  Protestant  Diet  ("  Protest anten- 
tag.") 
This  is  an  organization  of  the  "Liberal" 
party  in  the  German  churches.  It  held  its  ses- 
sion at  Neustadt  in  1807.  Prof  Mol  Zm  m,  of 
Heidelberg,  spoke  on  "  the  relation  o.  Piutest- 
«.nt  union  to  the  present  q.iestion  of  the  mstoii- 
cal  (Jhrist."  This  pJirty  lias  sustained  a  severe 
loss  in  the  death  o}  Prof.  Kothe,  at  Heidelberg, 
August  20tli,  a  remarkably  lo.irued  man,  gentle 
anc'  amiable,  highly  respected,  and  its  most  ia- 
Uueutial  leader. 

Methodi.3t3. 

Mfthodist  Episcopal  Church  Lny  Delegatinn, 

The  canvass  for  the  introduction  o.'  lay  del- 
esation  into  the  Conferences  oi  the  Metliodlst 
Kplscopal  Church  has  been  very  a.;tive  during 
the  year,  and  has  been  attended  with  results  re- 
garded as  exceedingly  tlatceriug  to  those  who 
have  participated  in  it.  The  general  results, 
as  exhibited  at  this  time  (N'ovember,  1867.)  are 
described  by  a  friend  of  tlie  movement  as  fol- 
lows :  It  has  been  brought  before  the  annual 
conferences  and  a  numbe.'  of  them  have  ex- 
pressed themselves  absolutely  in  favor  of  it.  A 
majority  of  the  conferences  favor  it  in  case  it 
can  be  shown  that  the  people  desire  it.  No  An- 
nual Conference  has  declared  agaiu.-^t  it.  Nearly 
all  the  church  papers  favor  it.  None  oppo,se  it. 
A  majority  of  the  delegates  chosen  to  tlie  Gen- 
eral (JonCerence  are  known  to  be  in  favor  of  it. 
Among  the  best  known  ministers  and  laymen  of 
the  church  wlio  are  laboring  earnestly  for  lay 
delegation,  are  Bishop  Simpson,  the  Kev.  Dbs. 
MeCliutock,  tjtevens,  and  Crooks,  Gen.  Clinton 
B.  Fisk,  U.  S.  Senator  Harlan,  and  others.  A 
laymen's  convention  will  be  called  to  meet  si- 
multaneously with  the  General  Conference  in 
May  next  at  Chicago.  The  action  of  the  Gen- 
eral Conference  on  the  subject  is  looked  forward 
to  with  much  interest  by  ail,  and  with  hope  by 
tho<e  who  have  been  laboring  to  elfect  this  great 
change  iu  the  economy  of  the  church. 

On  the  centenary  colleclioiis  taken  up  in  the 
Church  dm-iug  the  year  1866,  we  report  else- 
where. 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South. 
The  Annual  Conferences  of  this  Church  tiok 
*  vote  on  the  questioa  whether,  ia  .accordance 


with  the  proposition  of  the  General  Conference 
of  1860,  the  name  of  the  Church  should  be 
changed  from  ''Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
South,"  to  "  Kpisoopal  Meihidist  Chili'ch,"  and 
whether  lay  delegaiion  shou-d  be  introduced 
into  the  councils  of  the  Church.  The  latter 
me;isure  was  adopted,  more  than  three-fourths 
of  the  memb.'rs  of  the  Annual  Conferences  vot- 
ing for  it,  while  the  former  failed  from  want  of 
a  three-fourths'  majority. 

The  number  of  Annual  Conferences  of  this 
Church  was  increased  by  the  establi^iiment  of 
one  in  Illinois,  which,  however,  adopted  tha 
name  of  Episcopal  Methodist  Church. 

A  Union  Convention,  held  at  Montgomery, 
projiosed  apian  of  union  between  ihc  Jletlio  list 
Kpiscopal  Church,  South,  and  the  Southern 
Uutliodist  ProtUi>iaut  Cliurches. 

"  The  Methodist "  General  Conference. 

The  General  Conference  of  the  Methodist 
Church  commenced  its  session  at  Cleveland,  May 
15.  It  represents  mainly  the  late  Methodist 
Protestant  Church,  whose  last  General  Confer- 
ence was  held  iu  November,  laOO,  when  it  adopt- 
ed a  plan  of  union  which  the  non- Kpisoopal 
Methodists  agreed  to  submit  for  approval  to  their 
Conferences  and  ChurchfS.  The  C- inferences  of 
the  other  bodies  did  nut  adopt  that  plan.  A  few. 
local  churches  (two  Wesleyan  and  two  inde- 
jiendent)  were  repiesented.  The  ratio  of  con- 
ference represemation  was  one  minister  and  one 
layman  for  every  thousand  communicants.  The 
roll  contains  over  seventy  names,  nearly  all  of 
whom  were  present.  The  constituency  repre- 
sented, therefore,  exceeds  thirty-live  thousand 
members. 

The  Conference  made  the  following  organic 
Disciplinary  elianges  in  their  polity:  The  Re- 
strictive Kule  was  so  modified  as  to  allow  sta- 
tion and  circuit  p.eacheis  to  remain  in  one 
charge  for  four  years.  The  Leadi.-rs'  meeting 
was  abolished,  and  monthly  meetings,  composed 
of  all  the  members  of  each  church,  together 
with  its  pastor,  substituted  in  its  stead.  Vhe 
old  constitutional  obligation  of  the  Conference 
President  to  visit  all  the  circuits  an<l  stationsiu 
liis  district,  was  removed,  and  each  Annual  Con- 
ference is  allowed  to  use  its  own  discretion  as  to 
imposing  such  a  duty  upon  its  Pre.-ident. 

Tlie  next  General  Conference  (jf  the  Church 
will  meet  at  Adrian,  Michigan,  in  1871. 

American   WesUyan  General  Cmiference. 

This  body  met  in  Cleveland,  0.,  October  2. 
Rev.  S.  Salisbury  was  elected  president.  About 
5U  delegates  were  present. 

Two  questions,  iliat  of  the  revision  of  the 
Discipline,  so  as  to  cut  off  churches  toierating- 
meraoers  connected  with  Masonry  and  other  se- 
cret societies,  and  that  favirring  the  granting  to 
worn  n  the  right  of  elective  franchise,  gave  rise 
to  lengthy  discusdous.  Both  were  decided  ia 
the  atarniative.  the  former  by  a  vote  of  48  in  fa- 
vor to  ft  against,  and  the  latter  by  a  very  large 
majority. 

The  condition  of  the  publishing  house  at 
Syracuse  was  reported  as  follows  :  amount  o* 
property  in  the  hands  of  the  Hook  Coouni'.tee, 
and  owned  by  the  Publishing  Assuciation,  $14,- 
332.50;  subscription  list  of  the  American  Wts^ 
I  yan,$l,SOO.  \ 

Canadian  Wesleyan   Coyi/iretice. 

This  body,  which  met  at  Hamilton,  in  June, 
discussed  the  question  of  the  division 
ference  into  three  annual  conferences. 


n,  in  June,      -, 
I  of  ihe  con-       \ 
cos,  with  a       f 


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General  Conference  to  meet  onee  in  four  years. 
A  Toie  was  taken  Willi  th«  followiuu  result: 
Yeas.  125  ;  nays.  1(52  ;  a  mijoiily  of  37.  So  tli« 
measure  fails  for  the  preseiu.  Notice  was  given 
that  the  uiotiua  fur  division  would  be  renewed 
next  year. 
Evangelical  Associatinn  General  Conference. 
The  General  Conference  of  the  Evangelical 
Assiciation  met  at  Fittshurfj  on  the  loth  of  Oc- 
tober. It  a<lo|)tecl  a  geneial  resolution  in  reply 
to  overtures  of  union  from  the  M.  E.  Church,  in 
favor  of  the  cultivation  of  a  spirit  of  brotherly 
love  and  mutual  C(JO|ieration  in  various  inter- 
ests of  the  church,  but  not  contemplating  actual 
union  as  either  very  prolial)le  or  certainly  de- 
sirable, and  appointed  a  delegation  to  the  Gen- 
eral Conlerence  of  the  .M.  E.  Church.  It  deter- 
mined to  draw  the  attention  of  the  Board  of 
Missions  to  the  importance  of  securing,  at  an 
early  day,  some  town  lots  at  important  points 
along  the  Pacific  railroad,  for  the  purpose  ol 
erecting  houses  of  worship  thereon,  whenever 
advisable,  and  reeommemled  the  opening  of 
Missionary  Institutes  in  connection  with  the  lit- 
erary in  dilutions.  The  Association  has  mis- 
sions in  Germany,  California,  atid  Oregon,  a 
board  of  public  ition,  a  tract  and  sunday-^chool 
society,  and  publishes  two  papers,  one  English 
and  one  German.    It  has  two  bishops. 

British  Wealeyan  Conference. 

This  body  met  at  Bristol,  England,  July  25. 
The  Rev.  John  Bedford  was  elected  President. 
Fjr  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the  Confer- 
ence, laymen  were  called  on  to  offer  prayer  at 
the  opening  or  closing  of  tlie  committees,  rii.xtv- 
one  candidates  for  the  ministry  were  ordained. 
.Mr.  William  M.  Punshon  was  deputed  to  attjud 
the  Canada  C  inference.  The  Kev.  AVilliam  .Air- 
thur  was,  in  response  to  a  request  of  the  Irish 
Conference,  a|)pointed  Principal  of  the  new 
U'esleyan  College  at  B-lfast.  A  recommenda- 
tion to  seek  thi*.repeal  of  a  law  which  requires 
the  presence  of  a  registrar  at  the  solemnization 
of  marriages,  was  discussed,  and  remitted  to  the 
consideration  of  the  proper  committee.  The 
candidates  for  ordination  were  required  to  give 
pledges  to  abstain  from  the  use  of  tobacco,  i'he 
case  of  one  candidate,  who  declined  tn  give  the 
pledge,  was  ])ostponed  till  next  year.  The  Con- 
ference made  an  informal  expression  against 
ministers  wearing  surplices  and  other  vest- 
ments. A  discussion  took  place  on  the  number 
of  collections  taken  in  the  churches,  which 
some  seemed  to  regard  as  burdensome  to  the 
members.  The  Conference  agreed,  in  reply  to  a 
letter  from  the  New  Connexion  Conference  in 
regard  to  a  union  of  Methodist  bodies,  that 
while  it  did  not  see  the  way  to  an  organic  union, 
it  repeated  its  desire  to  cherish  the  most  friendly 
sentiments  towards  kindred  denominations.  The 
Increasing  favor  which  total  abstinence  princi- 
ples receive  from  the  Conference  is  subject  uf 
remark.  The  Conference,  by  resolution,  ex- 
pressed its  desire  to  maintain  and  extend  the 
practice  of  open-air  services  which  has  existed 
in  the  denomination  from  its  origin. 

The  Wesleyans  liave  laid  the  corner-stone 
of  a  liieological  college  at  Leeds,  the  third  un- 
der iheir  control. 

Iri$h  Conference, 

The  98th  session  of  the  Irish  Wealeyan  Con- 
ferance  was  hel.l  atBelf.st,  commencing  June 
13Mi.  The  Kev.  Dr.  Kibinson  Scott,  who  re- 
ceully  visited  the  Unito-1  States  Uii  a  delegate. 


gave  an  interesting  account  of  his  obserratioos, 
and  of  the  condition  of  American  Methodism. 
Ml.  McArthur  also  spoke  on  the  same  subject. 
A  congratulatory  address  was  read  from  the 
Engl.sh  Conference.  An  entertainment  was  giv- 
en to  the  members  who  are  teetotallers  by  the 
Irish  Temperance  League.  The  returns  show  a 
small  decrease  in  the  membership. 

ilethoii^t  New  Connexion  Conference. 

This  body  discussed  and  adopted  a  pro- 
gramme of  Methodist  union  to  be  submitted  to 
the  quarterly  conferenci's'.  It  adheres  to  the 
itinerancy  and  to  the  participation  of  the  laity 
in  all  the  church  courts. 

The  Canadian  Methodist  New  Connexion 
Conference  held  its  annual  session  in  Aurora, 
Canada.  T'le  increase  in  the  number  of  mem- 
bers was  reported  as  '^M.  The  total  member- 
ship in  Canada  is  over  8,000.  The  question  of 
.Methodist  union  was  left  in  the  hands  of  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee. 

In  the  province  of  Tien  Tsin,  north  of  Chi- 
na, where  this  church  has  three  missionaries, 
about  3U0  Chinese  have  professed  conversion  and 
abandoned  heathenish  practices.  The  Canada 
mission  is  prospering.  The  contributions  are 
$6UU,  and  the  membership  lias  increased  22. 

United  Methodist  Free  Churches. 
The  .\nnual  Asserilbly  of  this  body  met  at 
Manchester.  The  rejjorts  showed  a  marked  in- 
crease in  the  membership.  A  resolution  ap- 
proving the  steps  that  have  been  taken  in  favor 
of  union  with  the  New  Coiiiie.\ion  was  unani- 
mously adopted  after  a  lively  discussion.  This 
body  adheres  to  free  representation  and  the  in- 
dependence of  the  circuits.  The  subject  was 
then  remitted  to  the  conuexional  comiuiitee  with 
an  e.xpress  reservation  in  favor  of  these  princi- 
ples. The  assembly  made  a  deciiled  expression 
in  favor  of  total  abstinence,  and  endorsed  the 
principles  of  the  United' Kingdom  Alliance  in 
its  effirts  to  abolish  the  sale  of  intoxicating 
liquors. 

Union  between  the  New-Connection  and  Unitid 
Metknd'sts. 
At  a  conference  between  the  members  of  the 
annual  committee  of  the  Methodist  New  Con- 
nection and  of  the  conuectioual  committee  of 
the  United  Methodist  Free  Churches,  held  at 
Leeds,  resolutions  were  adopted  declaring  the 
desirability  of  an  organic  union  of  the  two  de- 
nominations, and  recommending  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  sub-comraittee  of  three  persons  from 
each  of  the  connectional  committees  in  order  to 
the  removal  of  difficulties  caused  by  the  pro- 
visions of  the  ••  deeds  "  under  which  the  church- 
es were  respectively  constituted.  The  sub- 
committees have  been  appointed,  and  there  is 
no  doubt  that  the  question  will  form  an  imjior- 
tant  feature  in  connection  with  the  proceedings 
of  the  forthcoming  conferences. 

Primitive  Methodists.— Thettogical  Seminary  tn 
Canadj. 

The  Primitive  Methodist  Conference  of  Can- 
ada resolved  to  establish  a  theological  Semi- 
nary, and  ap])()iuted  a  committee  to  carry  out 
the  matter  in  detail. 

The  Canada  Primitive  Methodist  Conference 
have  resolved  to  require  a  pledge  of  abstinence 
from  the  use  of  tobacco  from  all  who  in  luture 
enter  its  mini-try. 

A  Primitive  Methodist  Theological  Semi- 
nary is  to  be  opened  at  Sunderland  in  June,  ltt)8 


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Methodism  in  France, 
There  are  no>r  three  districts  in  France, 
»wo  of  which  report  an  increase,  the  third  not 
having  yet  reported.  The  Southern  district  has 
more  than  1,000  members,  an  increase  of  132 
from  last  year.  There  are  115  preaching  places, 
with  11  itinerant  and  75  local  preachers.  1,200 
Sunday  scholars  and  145  teachers.  There  are 
several  educational  institutions  at  Nismes. 

The  Wesleyan  Reform,  Utiion  on  Clerical  Titles. 

The  meeting  of  the  representatives  of  the 
Societies  of  the  Wesleyan  Reform  Union  adopted 
a  resolution  against  the  use  of  any  prefixes  or 
affixes  to  the  name  of  any  person  (minister). 
Bible  Christians  on  Union. 

The  annual  assembly  of  the  churches  of  this 
name  ailopted  the  resolutions  of  the  New  Con- 
nection Conference  on  Alethodist  Union. 

Unitarians  and  Universalista 

British  and  Foreign  Unitarian  Association. 
The  British  and  Foreign  Unitarian  Associ- 
ation held  its  forty-second  annual  meeting  this 
ytsar.  A  prosperous  conlition  of  the  denomina- 
tion was  reported.  The  Unitarian  churches  of 
Transylvania  annually  send  over  a  student  to 
complete  his  education  at  Manchester  New  Col- 
lege. The  report  gave  an  encouraging  account 
of  the  condition  of  missions  connected  with  the 
Association  in  the  north  of  England  and  Scot- 
land, referred  to  the  formation  of  a  theological 
library  for  the  use  of  members  and  all  free  in- 
quirers recommended  by  them,  and  to  the  dis- 
tribution of  books  and  tracts  during  the  year. 

"  Liberal  Christian  "  Conferences. 

The  organization,  of  Unitarians,  Universal- 

Ista,  and  members  of  the  Christian  Connection 

into  "  Liberal  Christian  "  is  making  progress. 

Universatist  Convention. 

At  the  General  Convention  of  Universalists 
this  year  aspeoial  committee  reported  adversely 
to  propositions  to  amend  the  Constitution,  and 
to  a  change  of  time  of  meeting,  approving  of  the 
proposition  to  publish  the  Church  History  and 
recommending  its  reference  to  a  committee  con- 
sisting of  Rev.  Drs.  Paige,  Sawyer,  and  Thayer, 
and  recommending  the  adoption  of  the  follow- 
ing declaration,  in  reference  to  the  meaning  of 
the  Winchester  Confession  : 

That  it  was  the  evident  attention  of  our  denom- 
inational fathers  to  affirm  the  Divine  Authority 
of  the  Scriptures  and  the  Lordship  of  Jesus 
Christ;  and  in  the  ju(lgment  of  this  Convention 
those  only  comply  with  the  prescribed  conditions 
of  fellowship  who  accept  the  Confession  with  this 
interprttation. 

The  Declaration  was  finally  adopted,  only  one 
Toting  in  the  negative. 

A  resolution  on  the  state  of  the  country  was 
adopted,  affirming  the  principles  of  human 
brotherhood,  and  professing  loyalty  to  the 
Government.  A  committee  was  appointed  to  re- 
port next  year  on  the  proper  method  of  celebrat» 
ing  the  centenary. 

The  Circuit  System  among  the  Unitarians. 

A  Committee  on  Christian  Union,  consisting  of 
James  Freeman  Clarke,  Hon.  John  G.  Palfrey, 
and  Rev.  Eli  Fay,  in  a  report  to  the  American 
Unitarian  Association,  have  recommended  a 
plan  very  like  the  old  Methodist  circuit  system. 


The  Committee  says  :  "Oar  plan  contemplates 
brietJy  this  change,  /nstead  of  having  a  minister 
in  every  church,  as  now,  let  us  liave  a  minister 
presiding  over  several  churches.  In  othei  words 
let  us  return  to  the  origin  of  the  eniscopate,  in 
which  every  church  had  its  own  officers  chosea 
from  among  themselves,  who  were  not  clergy- 
men but  laymen  ;  and  one  presiding  overseer, 
who  had  the  charge  of  several  churches." 
Progress  of  Universalism. 
During  the  year  over  thirty  churches  hare 
been  ertcted,  and  over  twenty  are  in  progress 
and  will  be  dedicated  in  a  few  months.  Uver 
forty  societies  have  been  reported  in  the  papers 
as  organized  during  the  time.  But  the  increase 
of  ministers  has  not  kept  pace  with  that  of 
societies  and  church  buildings.  There  have  beei: 
only  five  ordinations,  not  so  many  as  there  have 
been  deaths  in  the  ministry. 

Western  Unitarian  Conference. 

The  Conference  of  the  Western  Unitarian 
churches  met  at  Chicago  on  the  23d  of  Octoben-. 
The  executive  committee  presented  a  report, 
from  which  we  extract : 

"  We  have  assisted  in  the  support  of  twelve 
pastors  and  missionaries  and  one  theological 
student.  Three  new  church  edifices  have  been 
erected  and  paid  for,  in  part,  by  our  contribu- 
tions. Preaching  has  been  commenced  at  a 
number  of  new  points,  in  several  of  which,  new 
churches  have  already  been  organized.  In  no 
year  of  our  existence  has  there  been  so  much 
general  missionary  labor  performed  within  our 
bounds,  so  many  books,  tracts  and  papers  sold 
and  distributed,  and  so  large  an  amount  of  mon- 
ey collected  for  the  various  objects  demanding 
our  attention." 

Tlie  conference  at  Buffalo  had  voted  to  raise 
$6,000  for  the  missionary  fund  during  the  year, 
but  nothing  has  been  contributed  towards  it.  A 
resolution  was  adopted  to  raise  $5,000  for  the 
organization  of  societies  in  various  parts  of  the 
West.  A  resolution  for  combining  the  Confer- 
ence for  missionary  purposes  with  the  American 
Unitarian  Association,  was  reported  by  the 
committee  on  that  subject,  and  laid  over  for  con- 
sideration till  next  year.  Cheering  reports  were 
received  from  the  Meadville  Theological  schooli 
and  Antioch  college,  and  from  most  of  the 
churches.  The  Conference  adopted  resolutions 
expressing  gratification  at  emancipation,  re-- 
commending  the  education  of  the  freedmeo, 
and  approving  the  objects  and  action  of  the 
American  Freedmen's  Union  Commission.  An» 
other  resolution  recommended  the  holding  a 
Sunday  School  Convention  in  each  State.  A 
committee  was  appointed  to  see  what  opportu- 
nity there  may  be  for  organizing  Liberarl  relig- 
ious thought  and  feeling  among  the  Germane, 
and  in  connection  with  the  executive  commit- 
tee, to  carry  on  whatever  work  may  be  deemeti 
necessary  till  the  next  meeting  of  the  Confer- 
ence. 

American  Unitarian  Association. 

The  forty-second  annual  meeting  of  this  so- 
ciety was  held  at  Boston  on  the  28th  of  May. 
The  Treasurer's  report  showed  receipts  and  dis- 
bursements to  the  amount  of  $177,526.22.  Tho 
amounts  of  the  trust  fund  are  as  follows  :  Gen- 
eral fund,  $26,400  ;  Hayward  fund,  $20,060  ; 
Kendall  fund,  $2,000  ;  Lienow  trust  fund,  $3,- 
300;  Perkins  fund,  $8,000;  balance  of  tempo- 
rary investments,  $23,000.  During  the  year,  tha 
Association  has  aided  58  organized  societies  with 


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moopy,  ha<i  afforded  preaching  in  126  towns  and 
eiiius  where  u-<  Uiiitariau  oigauizaiion  exi»teil, 
eiupluy-d  .8  mis-ionanua  fur  three  mou  ris  or 
m  ire,  iind  btt  miiiistets  for  -hortei  puriods,  form- 
ed permaiieut  orgaiiizaiioni  in  8  places,  ami  hud 
good  piospec  9  111  *i  more.  A  mission  liaj  been 
opened  iii  Wi)iiiiiJ(;lon,  N.  C,  with  a  scImoI  of 
Hi  pupils,  au  iudustrial  scho.d  of  54  pnpil", 
and  a  -Sunday  scliool  oi  98  pupils.  The  Imliiin 
mission  l>iw  been  aided  by  a  general  beque.-t. 
audisdoini;  well,  and  a  roissionaay  ha^<  he' n 
c<lInIni^^ioned  to  Uueni>s  Ayres.  The  Arsociation 
^ave  publi.'-lied  severnl  new  works,  ciiciilnitd 
63,11(10  tracts,  tind  given  its  pul>lic;iti')ns  to  38 
public  libraries.  All  the  branches  of  its  work 
were  reported  in  a  healtliful  condition. 

Sandiiuanians. 

Tkf  laie  Pro/rssor  Faraday. 
The  late  Professor  Faraday  belonged  tir  a 
imall  sect  ciille.l  Sandunanians  or  Glas><1tes, 
founded  oy  S  ■iidiman  and  Glass,  botli  tScotch- 
meo.  Sandiroani;ui3  profess  very  high  Calviui^in 
and  liave  lieen  decreasing  in  numbers  and  iin- 
portaiice  for  many  years  past.  Of  late  yeais. 
raraday  was  an  eliler,  and  frequently  preached 
in  ihe  chapel,  Goswell  road,  Lon  Ion.  A  cor- 
respoiideut  writes  from  Mottiugham  to  a  L'lnd'in 
paper:  "I  heard  Faraday  read  the  Holy 
pcriiitures  nearly  forty  years  ago  in  the  li;lle 
Sanilimaniau  chapel  in  Hound's  Gate  (now  u 
warehouse),  in  tins  'own,  and  was  then  struck 
by  the  siiuplicity  of  his  manners  and  the  clcar- 
jiegi  and  impressiveuess  of  his  reading. 

'•«  New  Jerusalem  Church. 

The  Nntinnal  Conference, 
The  •Nationnl  Convention  of  the  New  Jeru- 
Wlera  churches  ol"  the  United  8tates  met  at  Cin- 
cinnati, .Vlayitlst  The  reports  of  the  tState  a- 
•ociations  w  revvery  jmp  rfect.  The  report  of 
the  Board  of  I'ulilicatiou  allowed  that  hesi  le> 
the  t\em  Jenisnlrm  M'fSrv^eT  and  the  (  hil- 
lireii's  ilufi'izim,  foiirnew  books  have  been  pub- 
li.'<hed  in  New  Vorjc.  The  Theolo^'ic  il  luuLitu- 
tion  at  Waltham    .Mass.,  has  ei^'ht  studi-nti. 

The  ^ixtie^ll  Gefteiial  Conference  of  'he  Kn:;- 
Jish  cliiiicnes  .wa-  aitemjed  by  Diiie  niiui.-ters 
iind  "iU  representatives. 

Tiie  pr  'Cee.)iii>!s  of  the  <3»qada  Conference 
ehow  the  church' there  to  be  >»  a  coiiUuion  of 
juauifest  jjrowUi  uud  progress. 

The  Friends. 

Tlie  Eif^Ush.  Yearty  Heeling, 
Atthe yearly  meeting  of  the  Englis'i  Friends, 
the  Society  a(.;aiii  was  anxious  to  sustain  its  '.e- 
tiinuiiy  Aga  Dst  «ar.  It  »a<  the  subju'ct  of  an^ 
Dual  iiKjui'y  wlieili*-r  all  Friends  liau  heeu  cuu- 
sistetit  in  .this  i  e.sjiect.  la  the  United  ^^'^es. 
the  testiiiiony  s;;aiii>t  war  appeared  to  be  cy,r- 
ried  out  with  more  i)raetical  effrtt  than  jugong 
members  of  Ihe  sn-i--tv  in  Kn;,'land.  Xow  tliat 
slavery  h  id  gone,  the  American  Friemls  w^re 
resolved  111  U!ake  war  lli.- object  of  8»  a'eiiiatic 
and  uuit-d  Kitack.  'he  cla  lus  of  teiiiMcrance 
on  Friends  were  earncs  ly  lanen  into  connid.-r- 
ntion,  one  aflernoon  being  devoted  to  tin-  eub- 
ject  and  it  was  ibcided  to  issue  a  minute,  ex- 
I>re«»ive  of  the  concern  felt  by  the  yearly  meet' 
•■••■•  pu  the  BUbj<.ct, 


ithiinnt 

Hitherto,  the  peculiar  mission?,  or  "  relfg'- 
lous  vjsiis,"  constantly  undertaken  by  devoted 
and  earnest  Friends  have  b-en  of  the  nature  of 
transient  journeys  throu>:h  the  country  Ti.sited. 
I/vtely  three  menmers  have  been  moved  to  go  to 
Madagascar,  for  the  purixxe  ot  taking  up  their 
abode  in  that  country,  to  deviite  themselves  to 
wornsof  Christian  beneficence  as  they  may  find 
oppo' tuniiy.  This  movement  has  raised  two 
im]>)rtant  (juestions  :  In  their  own  minds,  how 
they  shall  act ;  in  the  minds  of  the  Friends  at 
h ouie,  how  tliev  shall  b-  supported.  A  subscrip- 
tion 0}  £1.0(111  answers  the  lat  er.  A»to  the  for- 
mer, ihe  three  have  declared  that,  in  case  they 
f.innd  it  ncce-sary  to  modify  their  p'evious  hab- 
its, they  wished  to  be  left  at  liberty  to  act  as 
'•w.iy  might  open,"  and  "cutoi  Chriuian  con- 
■Jideration  for  their  weak  and  late'y  pagaa 
brethren,  and,  to  avoid  wounding  their  con- 
soiences  or  distrac'ing  tlioir  poor  i;>inds,  not  to 
intiTfeie  with  customs  alreaily  estaWi.shed  by 
William  Ellis  and  his  brother  irtissicnaries  " 

In  other  words,  they  do  not  pro|jose  to  forin 
a  separate  *■  Friends' Meeting,"  or  to  organiza 
a  distinct  society  at  all  ;  bi't  to  do  good  in  all 
tlie  ways  that  piety  and  humanity  shall  dictate, 
and  leave  the  religious  order  and  p-ractices  of 
t)ie  [leofde  to  the  free  determinatii  n  ot  the  peo- 
ple theuuul  ve3.  as  they  sli.ill  be  guided  by  ex- 
perieucu  and  the  impulses  of  the  Divine  Spirit. 

The  Oneida  Communities* 

Peculiar  colonies  of  Comirunists  exist  near 
and  at  Wal!int;ford,  Ct.,  and  near  Oneida,  New 
Vork.  Their  economical  I'e.itures  do  not  differ 
materially  from  those  of  the  Shakers  and  other 
socialistic  organizavioDS.  In  religion,  they  hivve 
no  loimai  creed,  but  claim  to  take  the  whide  Bi- 
ble as  their  guide,  believe  that  the  tecond  com- 
in;4  of  Christ  t  lok  place  at  the  fall  of  Jerusa.. 
leiii,  that  then  there  was  a  primary  resurrectioiii 
and  judgment  in  the  s]dritual  >?orld  ;  t.'jat  » 
church  on  earth  is  rising  to  meet  the  approach- 
ing Kingdom  ia  the  heavens,  and  to  become  itj 
duiilicate  and  representative;  that  inspiration, 
or  open  communication  with  Gai,  involiing  per- 
fect ho!inc.-s,  is  the  bond  of  unhjn  between  the 
churc'.i  above  and  the  church  be'ow,  and  the 
|)  .yer  hy  w.'iich  the  Kinj-iioiu  of  G  d  io  to  be  os» 
lahlished  and  reign  iu  the  world.  They  have 
MO  religious  service,  or  forms  of  worship,  aa 
tlicy  consider  themselves  perfect.  They  do  not 
lai'orou  the  Sabbath,  yet  do  not  regard  it  as 
sacrtd.  Iheir  most  peculiar  notions  are  as  to 
marriage,  which  they  do  not  entirely  repudi.ite, 
11', r  do  they  regard  it  as  a  permanent  relation, 
n  .r  entirely  voluntary.  They  hold  it  to  be  as- 
aunied  according  to  afBuity,  but  to  be  regulated 
by  tiic  rules  of  the  Society,  and  a  certain  re- 
siiocl  10  the  ji:dKnien'.  ol  the  c  ii.i.i)ui.ity  The 
childrjn  Iieloiig  to  and  are  canal  for  by  the 
coiiiiuuaity,  and  not  by  their  lair'jiits.  The 
Oneida  community  was  organizsd  in  1848,  has 
'^}5  members,  and  owns  more  than  50U  acres  of 
iind.  The  Wallingtord  community  was  estab- 
lithed  in  1851,  has  about  45  members  and  'iiS 
acres  of  land.  There  are  also  two  other  siualJ 
J'ajniiies,  iu  New  llaveu  and  New  Vork. 

Jevrs. 

Tk".  Unipertal  hraeli'e  Alliance. 
At  the  meeting  of  the  Universal  loracllte 
.Mliauue  in  Paris,  tield  Kovvmber  'i'iih,  Ibtio, 


•■Cs 

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the  nnmber  of  members  was  reported  at  4,500, 
the  receipts  since  May,  1863,  50,6(0  francs,  and 
the  expenditures  33  700.  Frotectinn  and  eman- 
cipation, iusti'uction  and  educatiua,  religion 
and  morals,  are  what  the  Alliance  seeks  to  gain 
for  its  people.  A  Hungarian  rabbi  brought 
money  to  encourage  emigration  to  colonize  the 
Holy  Land.  It  was  accepted  as  a  deposit,  but 
Armenia  was  suggested  ai  a  preferable  place. 
The  President,  M  Cremieux,  told  of  his  journey 
to  Bucharest,  and  of  his  aiguments  in  favor  of 
liberty  for  Jews  before  a  commission  of  sixty 
members  of  the  chambers.  His  pointed  ques- 
tion was,  If  the  fathers  had  slain  Jesus  Christ, 
Why  must  the  childien,  1833  years  afterward,  be 
made  re.-ponsible '^  Surely,  if  God  came  upon 
earth  again,  they  wnuld  not  crucify  him!  Be- 
sides, if  we  take  the  Christian  religion  as  it 
stands,  that  death  is  the  pledge  of  sai  vation  for 
all  the  world,  ihe  worship  which  people  give 
themselves  up  to  with  so  much  happiness,  is 
owing  to  the  death  of  Christ.  And  yet  1800 
years  have  done  nothing  to  mitigate  the  accusa- 
tion! 

Synagogues  in  the  Ea.it  Indies. 
A  Hamburger,  recently  from  Delhi,  furnish- 
ed the  Wtekbiad  of  Amsterdam  with  an  account 
of  the  Jews  in  the  East-Indies.  He  sta?vs  that 
in  Delhi,  Meirut,  Agra,  i.ahore,  Benares,  Patna, 
Dinjapore,  Cabul.  Candahar,  Pooua,  Bangalore. 
Mysore,  Calcutta,  Bombay,  Madras,  and  other 
large  towns,  there  are  Jewish  congregatiens. 
In  the  three  last  mentioned  cities,  there  are  a 
great  number  of  European  Israelites,  while  in 
the  other  places  they  are  mostly  natives,  and 
<;annot  be  distinguished  from  tbe  Mohammedans 
■by  dress  or  manners,  the  only  difference  being 
4u  tlieir  religion. 

The  Israelitish  Congress  at  Florence, 
An  Italian  Jewish  Congress  met  on  the  SOth 
X>{  April  last,  at  Florence,  and  completed  its  la- 
bors on  May  5'#i.  Twenty  congregations  were 
represented  by  as  many  deputies.  Among  other 
things,  an  annual  grant  of  one  thousand  francs 
was  ag,aiu  voted  toward  the  publication  of  good 
books;  it  was  further  resolved  to  subsidize  the 
Kabbinical  college  at  Padua;  the  majority, 
moreover,  passed  a  vote  favorable  to  the  convo- 
cat  on  of  a  synol.  An  executive  committee  was 
then  aiipoiuted,  charged  with  carrying  out  the 
resolutions  of  the  congress,  after  which  the  as- 
sembly adjourned. 

Convention  of  American  Jews. 
A  convention  of  Jews  at  Philadelphia  in 
1867,  resolved  against  sending  money  to  Pales- 
tine to  be  speot  in  almsgiving,  proposing  to  de- 
voie  money  for  that  country  to  the  development 
of  agriculture  and  industrial  pursuits  there.  It 
was  resolved  also  to  cooperate  in  measures  for 
removing  the  Jews  of  Servia,  Moldavia.  Wal- 
lachia,  Kouraania,  and  the  Barbary  States  to 
Palestine,  and  colonize  them  there. 

Anti-Conversion. 
The  Universal  Israelitish  Alliance  of  Paris 
have  determined  to  send  out  a  messenger  to 
counteract  efforts  to  convert  the  Fallaohahs 
tribes  of  Abyssinia — suppjsed  to  be  descendants 
at  the  lost  tribes — to  Christianity, 

Jews  in  Qffi:e. 
There  are  four  Jews  in  the  Prussian   Par- 
liament— all  Liberals.    There  are  five  Jews  in 


the  Parliament  and  five  Jewish  magistrates  in 
New  South  Wales,  and  one  Jew  in  the  Ministry 
of  Van  Uieman's  Land.  Seven  Jews  have  been 
elected  to  tiie  Italian  Parliament,  and  thiee 
Jews  have  been  elected  from  Praga«  to  the  Pro- 
vincial Bohemian  Diet. 

The  Jews  in  Roumania  and  Sirvia, 
The  Board  of  Delegates  of  American  Israel- 
ites have  called  the  attention  of  our  Govern- 
ment to  the  persecution  of  the  Jews  in  the  Dan- 
ubian  principalities,  with  a  view  of  procuring 
the  exercise  of  its  powerful  influence  in  the  in- 
terest of  humanity,  in  behalf  of  their  persecu- 
ted brethren.  The  Secretary  of  State  has  sig- 
nified the  compliance  of  our  Government  with 
the  request  of  the  Board  of  Delegates, 

Jewish  College^ 

A  new  Hebrew  collegiate  institution,  to  be 
located  at  Pniladelphia,  has  been  detinitely  de- 
termined on  by  the  convention  which  met  in 
that  city  last  year. 

The  Jews  in  this  country  have  already  es- 
tablished eilucatioual  institutions  of  ditferent 
grades  in  New  York,  Savannah,  Mobile,  New 
t'rieans,  Cleveland,  Albany,  and  other  cities. 
This  projected  Maimonides  College  at  Philadel- 
phia is  designed  for  a  more  advanced  course  of 
study  than  is  pursued  in  any  of  the  others,  and 
of  more  thorough  instruction  in  Hebrew  than 
has  ever  yet  been  afforded  in  any  theological 
seminary  in  America.  '"The  conclusion  has 
been  formed,"  says  The  Jewish  Messmi^er,  "  of 
B'.t  restricting  the  college  course  to  Hebrew  and 
theological  studies,  so  that,  instead  of  a  divini- 
ty school,  it  is  to  be  a  college  in  the  popular  ac- 
ceptation. It  will  have  a  faculty  of  science  and 
letters  as  well  as  a  faculty  of  Hebrew;  it  will 
furnish  general  instruction  in  classics,  mathe- 
matics, and  belles-lettres,  as  well  as  a  special 
course  for  the  future  Hebrew  minister  and  teach- 
er. The  plan  is  somewhat  more  grand  and  com- 
prehensive than  was  first  contemplated,  but 
there  appear  to  have  been  judicious  reasons  for 
its  adoption," 

The  Tax  on  the  Jews  of  Rome. 
Dr.  Philip,  the  Jewish  Missionary  in  Leg- 
horn, informs  a  correspondent  of  the  Evangelical 
Christendom  that  there  used  to  be  a  ni'ist  im- 
portant Hebrew  colony  in  Venice,  and  that  the 
printing  press  w.as  much  use  t  among  ihem.  Al- 
most all  the  old  Jewish  works  bear  either  Am- 
sterdam or  Venice  on  their  title  pages,  as  the 
place  of  publication.  Dr.  Philip  also  mentioned 
a  very  interesting  discovery  he  had  made  with 
regard  to  the  Jews  in  Rome.  It  appears  that 
every  year  the  representatives  of  the  synagogue 
humbly  betake  themselves  to  the  Capitol,  and 
deposit  a  sum  of  money  in  the  hands  of  a  lordly 
prelate  who  sits  there,  as  officer  of  the  Pope- 
King,  at  the  receipt  of  custom.  This  annual 
tribute  comes  down  from  the  time  of  Vespasian, 
who  ordered  that  the  contributions  which  the 
Romans  were  in  the  habit  of  bringing,  in  order 
to  be  forwarded  for  the  Temple  service  in  .Jeru- 
salem, should  then  and  thereafter  be  changed 
into  a  perpetual  tax  of  seven  dtnari  per  Jew, 
to  be  paid  to  the  government  of  Home,  in  aHdi- 
tioti  to  all  other  taxes  levied  from  .lew  jind  Gen- 
t  l-i  alike.  And  to  this  day,  and  through  all 
tlie  intervening  a-.-es.  from  the  time  of  t!ie  fit  i-r 
of  Tit  IS.  has  this  sum  been  exacted  from  tlio 
heails  of  the  Jewish  community. 


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Free  Religious  Association. 

A  meeting  of  persons  of  various  shades  of 
liberal  l)elief  was  lield  in  Boston  on  the  30th  of 
May,  18rt7.  "  to  consider  the  canJition,  waatg, 
anil  prospects  of  Free  Religion  in  America." 
Addresses  were  delivered  by  Uiiiversalists,  Uni- 
tarians, Kriends,  Progressive  Friends,  Spirit- 
ualists, and  persons  of  various  shades  of  belief 
iu  doctrines  commonly  known  as  transcenden- 
tal. Afterward  a  constitution  was  adopted  for 
an  as-iociation  to  be  called  a  "  Free  Keligious 
Association,"  theobjectsof  which  were  declared 
to  be  to  promote  the  interests  of  pure  religion, 
to  encourage  the  scientific  study  of  theology, 
and  to  increase  fellowship  in  the  spirit ;  and  to 
this  enii  all  persons  interested  in  these  objects 
are  cordially  invited  to  its  membership.  Each 
member  of  the  Association  is  left  individually 
responsible  for  his  own  opinion  alone,  and 
alfects  in  no  degree  his  relations  to  other  as- 
sociations. Any  person  desiring  to  cooperate 
with  the  association  will  be  considered  a  mem- 
ber, with  full  right  to  speak  in  its  meetings,  but 
)3  required  to  contribute  a  small  annual  fee  as 
a  preliminary  to  the  privilege  of  voting  on 
questions  of  business.  The  association  meets 
annually  at  Boston,  one  month's  notice  of  the 
meeting  being  previously  given.  A  permanent 
organization  was  effected,  of  officers  and  com- 
mittees. The  participants  in  the  meeting  were 
men  and  women  of  prominent  rank  in  their  re- 
spective spheres,  and  among  them  Were  persons 
of  national  fame  as  ministers,  leclarers,  and 
authors. 

Positivism. 

August  Comte,  author  of  the  Positive  Phi- 
losophy, was  a  Frenchman,  of  a  C.itholio  fami- 
ly, born  in  1798,  and  died  in  1857.  Rejecting 
the  Catholic  faith  at  an  early  age,  he  wrote  a 
system  of  Positive  Philosophy,  the  basis  of  which 
was  science,  rather  than  metaphysics  or  theolo- 
gy. He  followed  this  by  a  treatise  on  Positive 
jiolitics,  in  the  composition  of  which  he  framed 
a  system  of  Positive  religion,  to  correspond  with 
his  other  theories.  His  deity  was  a  perfected 
Humanity,  in  which  all  mankind  would  be 
merged  after  death. 

During  the  past  year  his  followers  in  Eng- 
land have  organized  themselves  into  a  church, 
under  the  leadership  of  Richard  Congreve,  for- 
merly a  clergyman  of  the  Established  Church. 
Kuriuent  men  who  have  contributed  to  the  im- 
])roveinent  of  the  race  are  objects  of  worship. 
Comte  is  an  objectof  special  reverence.  It  bases 
one  of  its  claims  for  superiority  over  other  re- 
ligions on  the  fact  that  it  sympathizes  with  the 
latest  teachinu'S  of  science,  and  utilizes  tliem 
for  the  benefit  of  man. 

A  Positivist  church  has  for  some  years  ex- 
isted in  Paris,  where  M.  Littre,  an  eminent 
French  scholar,  is  the  foremost  representative 
of  Comte'8  views.  M.  Littre  has  also  begun  the 
puldication  of  a  Positivist  periodical.  I'he  or- 
ganization of  a  Positivist  community  has  been 
uiichrlakeii  in  this  country  at  Modern  Times,  Suf- 
folk county.  Long  Island,  by  Mr.  Henry  Kdger. 

Chiirch  of  the  Messiah. 

This  is  a  sect  e-itahlished  in  the  United  States 
a  few  yi-ars  ago  by  (}.  M.  Adams,  f^irmerly  a  lec- 
turing Mormon  Klder.  In  18fi3,  Mr.  Adams  ap- 
]>earcd  near  .lonesboro,  Maine,  and  there  organ- 
txs4  a  c  lOgreK^tion  and  estriblished  a  periodiual 


for  the  dissemination  of  his  views.  The  only 
conditions  of  membership  were  immersion  and 
belief  in  his  apostolic  character.  Among  tha 
peculiar  points  of  faith  preached  by  Adams,  is 
one  that  the  members  of  the  Church  of  the  Mes- 
siah are  of  the  tribe  of  Kphraim.  and  that,  as 
the  "  curse  is  now  taken  off  from  I'alestine,''  the 
time  has  come  for  the  lost  ten  tribes  to  return  to 
the  land  of  their  fathers.  The  re-estahlistiment 
at  Jerusalem  of  the  throne  of  David,  in  greater 
than  Solomonic  si)lendor,  is  promised.  In  ex- 
pectation of  the  near  advent  of  the  Messiah,  lift 
nicmbers  of  the  sect  from  the  State  of  Maine,  ia 
IHtJfi  went  to  Palestine  to  establish  a  colony  at 
JulTa,  the  seaport  of  Jerusalem.  Land  had  beeu 
secured  for  them  in  advance,  and  their  settle- 
ment began  under  tlie  most  favorable  auspices. 
But  soon  a  large  number  of  the  colonists  be- 
came dissatisfied  with  the  management  of  "Pres» 
iileut"  Adams,  who  was  charg.-d  with  dishon- 
esty. The  financial  condition  of  the  coloui«t3 
was  represented  as  most  wretched. 

The  American  Colony  in  Jafffa. 
The  agent  sent  out  by  the  United  States 
government,  in  the  spring  nf  1867,  to  inquire 
into  the  condition  of  the  Jaffa  colonists,  made  a 
favorable  report,  but  he  must  have  been  misled 
by  those  whom  he  saw,  as  the  colonists  on  the 
4th  of  July  issued  an  appeal  for  help  to  retura 
to  their  homes,  which  was  endorsed  liy  a  com- 
mittee in  Palestine,  at  the  head  of  whom  was 
the  American  Consul.  This  stated  that  out  of 
151  of  the  original  colonists,  54  had  returned, 
17  had  died,  and  the  remainder,  except  "  Pres- 
ident" Adams  and  tiiirteen  others,  desired  to 
return.  The  steamer  Quaker  City,  with  a  party 
of  e.tcursionists,  stopped  at  Jaffa  in  the  early 
fall,  and  took  on  board  several  of  the  colonists, 
whom  it  carried  to  Alexandria,  Egypt,  where 
they  were  furnished  by  contribution  with  means 
to  pay  their  expenses  to  America.  "  President" 
Adams  and  a  small  number  of  the  colonists  yet 
remain  in  Palestine. 

Free  Congregations  (Freie  Qemein- 
den). 

There  are  in  Germany,  and  among  the  Ger- 
mans in  the  United  States,  a  number  of  socie- 
ties under  the  above  name.  Their  bond  of  union 
is  the  absolute  freedom  of  inquiry  for  every  in- 
diviilual  on  all  suljjects  ol  religion  and  philos- 
ophy. Although  not  requiring  a  specific  opin- 
ion on  any  other  subject,  all  tne  societies,  with- 
out exception,  agree  in  rejecting  a  supernatural 
revelation.  Some  of  the  leading  men  were  for- 
mtrly  deists  ;  but  it  is  understood  that  the  re- 
jection of  the  belief  in  a  personal  God  is  novr 
the  rule. 

In  Germany,  the  Union  of  Free  Congrega- 
tions numbers  at  present  121  congregations, 
with  25  (100  members,  and  6  periodicals  advo- 
cate their  views.  Among  the  Germans  of  the 
United  States,  the  Union  (liwd)  of  Free  Con- 
gregations embraces  5  congregations;  namely. 
Philadelphia  (since  1852);  St.  Loui.i  (185(1); 
Sauk  Co.,  Wisconsin  (3  branches)  ;  Dane  Co., 
\yis. ;  Hoboken  (1665).  A  periodical  is  publish- 
ed iu  Philadelphia.  The  Uniim  acts  hand  in 
hand  with  the  "Alliance  of  Freethinkers  "  la 
German  society  in  Kew  York)  and  a  number  of 
"  Free  Men's  Associations  "  in  different  parts  of 
the  country. 

Similar  Free  Societies  pxist  in  Franco,  Ita- 
ly, Belgium,  and  Holland. 


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NATIONAL  RELIGIOUS  RECORD. 


In  this  department  we  give  some  interesting 
facts  o."  the  history  of  the  year  1867,  which  could 
not  be  given  in  the  "Denominational  Record," 
as  they  do  not  refer  to  any  particular  religion. 

State  Christian  Conventions  in  the 
Uxiited  States. 

The  American  Christian  Commission,  in 
view  of  the  numbers  of  the  people  who  do  not 
hear  tlie  gosjiel,  and  believing  that  many  of 
them  would  gladly  receive  it  when  it  was  car- 
ried to  them,  appointed  State  Christian  Conven- 
tions to  be  held  in  some  of  the  Northern  States. 
Among  the  subjects  discussed,  were  : 

1.  How  can  we  best  reach  and  influence 
those  who  Ijabitually  neglect  public  worship  ? 

2.  How  shall  the  whole  Church  be  inter- 
ested and  engaged  in  efforts  for  those  who  ne- 
glect the  Gospel  ? 

3.  What  can  the  laity  of  our  churches  do 
for  Christ? 

4.  How  can  the  unity  of  Christ's  followers 
be  better  manifested  to  tlie  world  ? 

5.  How  can  the  Gospel  be  carried  to  neigh- 
borhood? remote  from  churches? 

6.  How  can  our  devotional  meetings  be 
made  more  interesting  and  profitable  to  the  un- 
converted ? 

and  others  of  similar  tenor. 

The  Convention  at  Indianapolis  adopted  res- 
olutions recommending  street  preaching, preach- 
ing in  halls  and  houses,  cottage  prayer-meet- 
ings, personal  and  houseliold  distribution  of 
tracts  and  cards  of  invitation  to  the  churches, 
that  habitual  attendants  of  churches  come  in 
plain  attire,  recognize  strangers  and  invite  them 
to  come  again;  that  ministers  remember  the 
poor  in  their  prayers,  and  inquire  if  they  suffi- 
ciently ada|)t  portions  of  their  discourses  to  the 
wants  of  tlie  poor  ;  that  the  laity  interest  them- 
aelves  in  Christian  work,  &c. 

A  iState  Convention  for  the  State  of  New 
Tork  met  in  Nev  York  city  on  Ihe  13th  of  No- 
vember. The  discussions  took  a  similar  range 
to  those  in  the  other  conventions.  An  address 
was  adojited  "  to  the  jiastors  and  members  of 
the  churches  of  Christ  throughout  the  State," 
recommending  the  holding  of  County  Conven- 
tions. 

A  Good  Year   for  American  Col- 
leges. 

The  past  collegiate  year  has  been  one  of  un- 
exampled liberality  toward  the  higher  eduea- 
tional  institutions.  The  colleges,  old  and  new, 
have  received  the  donations  of  their  generous 
friends  in  such  amounts  as  to  inspire  them  with 
new  vigor,  while  adding  to  their  means  of  use- 
fulness. Some  idea  of  the  aggregate  amount  of 
these  benefactions  m:iy  be  gathered  from  the 
following  table,  which  we  find  in  the  Yale  Cou- 
rant,  and  believe  to  be  trustwortliy.  In  this 
list,  no  account  is  made  of  the  amount  given,  in 
the  way  of  land  grants,  to  the  Agricultural  Col- 
leges. The  handsome  gift  of  Mr.  Co'  nell  w^s 
made  in  I8()5,  but  is  given  below,  as  it  was  not 
apiilied  until  within  the  last  year  : 

Alliion  College,  Albion,  Mich   $  25.0en 

Ualdwijo  University,  13erea,  0.... 103,000 


Belo't  College,  Beloit,  Wis..   18,600 

Bowdoin  College,  Brunswick,  Me 27,000 

College  of  New  Jersey,  Princeton 20,00» 

Cornell  University,  N.  Y 760,000 

Cornell  College,  Mt.  Vernon,  Iowa 25,000 

Cumberland  Universitv,  Lebancw,  Tenn  35,000 
Dartmouth  College,  Hanover,  N.  H....     35.000 

Dickinson  College,  Carlisle,  Pa 100,000 

Hamilton  College,  Clinion,  N.  Y 94,000 

Hanover  College,  Hanover,  Ind.  ■ 35,000 

Harvard  College,  Cambridge,  Mass  ...   400,000 

Kenyon  College,  Gambler,  O 35,000 

Lafayette  College,  Easton,  Pa 30,000 

Lawrence  University,  Appleton,  Wis...     3(),O0O 

McKeudree  College,  Lebanon,  III 20,000 

N.W.  Christian  Univ.,  Indianapolis.  Ind  35,008 
Norwich  University,  Northfield,  Vt....     16,000 

Oberlin  College,  Oberlin,  0 34,000 

Otterbein  University,  Westerville.  O.. .  30,000 
Rutgers  College,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.  50,000 
Shurtleff  College,  Upper  Alton,  111....     80.000 

Tuft's  College.  Medford,  Mass 309,000 

University  of  Mississippi,  Oxford,  Miss.     35,000 

University  of  Chicago,  Chicago,  III 100,060 

Wabash  College,  Crawfordsville,  Ind..  46,009 
Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  Mo..  100,000 
Wesleyan  University,  Middletown,  Ct..     98,000 

Western  University,  Pittsburg,  Pa 95,000 

Yale  College,  New  Haven.  Ct 206,000 

Total  of  31  colleges $3,041,000 

The    South   American    Missionary 
Society. 

At  a  late  meeting  of  the  South  American 
Missionary  Society  of  the  Church  of  England, 
the  Secretary  said  that  the  Society  contempla- 
ted, among  its  objects  of  evangelistic  labor,  not 
only  the  aborigines,  numbering  six  millions, 
and  four  millions  of  negroes,  but  a  large  Eng- 
lish population  settled  in  many  districts,  follow- 
ing mining,  agricultural,  and  mercantile  pur- 
suits. British  sailors,  frequenting  the  South 
American  ports  and  Chincha  Islands  in  great 
numbers,  formed  another  sphere  of  labor.  The 
stations  alreidy  opened  were  Panama,  Callaoin 
Peru,  Coquimbo  and  Lota,  with  Araucania,  ia 
Chili,  Paysaudu  in  Uraguay,  El  Carmen  in  the 
North  of  Patagonia,  and  Keppel  Island  at  the 
Falklauds,  with  a  mission  vessel,  the  '  Allen 
Gardiner,"  named  after  the  founder  of  the  So- 
ciety, for  the  work  in  Terra  del  Fuego. 

Churches  in  British  Guiana. 

The  London  Missionary  Society  has  now 
twenty  churches,  with  nearly  three  thousand 
members,  in  British  Guiana. 

Protestantism  in  Mexico. 

A  Protestant  Church  of  about  thirty  Mexi- 
cans has  been  organized  in  Monterey.  A  lot  has 
been  purcliase<i,  and  effirtsare  being  made  to 
raise  money  to  erect  a  building. 

Sects  in  England. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  denominations  certi- 
fied to  the  Registrar-Gener.iil : — Apostolics, 
Arminian  New  Society,   Baptists,  Baptized  Be 


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HeTem,  ■^-lUrers  In  Christ,  Bible  Christians, 
Bible  Deffc  ^e  Associalii.u,  Brethren,  Cnlvinists, 
CalvinUtic  Rk|iiist8.  Catholic  and  Apostolic 
Church,  ClirUiians,  Christians  who  ohjeot  to  be 
otherwise  deiiiKuated.  Christian  BelieTert, 
Christian  Brethren,  Christian  Klia.-ites,  Christ- 
ian Isriielltes,  Christian  leetotallerg.  Christian 
Temperance  Men,  Cliristian  Unionists,  Church 
of  Sciiliand.  Church  of  Christ,  Countess  of  Hunt- 
ingdon's Connection,  Disciples  in  Christ.  Eastern 
Orthodox  Greek  Church.  Electics,  Kpiscopalian 
Dissent!  rs,  KvanBelical  Unionists,  Followers  of 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Free  Grace  Gospel  Christ- 
ians, Free  Gospel  Church,  Free  Christians,  Free 
Church.  Free  Church  (Rpiscopal,)  Free  Church 
of  Kngland,  Free  Union  Church,  General  Baptist, 
General  Baptist  New  Connexion,  German  Luth- 
eran, German  Koman  Catl.olic,  Greek  Catholic, 
Hallelujah  Band,  Independents,  Independent 
Religions  Reformers,  Independent  Unionists, 
Inghamites,  Jews,  Latter  Day  Saints,  Modern 
Methodists.  Mormons,  New  Connexion  of  Wes- 
leyans.  New  Jerusalem  Church,  New  Church, 
Old  Baptists,  Original  Connexion  of  Wesleyans, 
Plymouth  Brethren,  Peculiar  People,  Presbyteri- 
an Church  in  England,  Primitive  Methodists.  I 
Proges.'iionists.  Protestants  aiihering  to  the  Arti- 
cles of  the  Church  of  England  1  to  18  inclusive 
but  rejecting  order  and  ritual,  Providence 
Qualter^,  Ranters,  Reformers,  Reformeu  Presby- 
terians or  Covenanters,  Recreative  Religionists, 
Refuge  Melbodiats,  Reformed  Free  Church  of 
Wealeyau  Methodists,  Revivalists,  Roman  Catho- 
lics. Salem  Society,  ^andemanians,  Scotch  Bap- 
tists. Second  Advent  Brethren,  Sepaiatists  (Pro- 
testants), Seventh  Day  Baptists,  Swedenborgians, 
Teaiimony  Congregation  Church,  Trinitarians, 
Union  Baptists,  Unitarians,  Unitarian  Christian. 
United  Christian  Church,  United  Free  Methodist 
Church,  United  Brethren  or  Moravians.  United 
Presbyterians.  Unitarians  Bapti^<t3,  Welsch  Cal- 
■vinistic  Methodists.  Welsh  Free  Presbyterians, 
AVesleyan  Methoilists  Associations,  Wesleyan 
Reformers,  and  Wesleyan  Reform  Glory  Band. 
(Many  of  the  names  in  the  above  list  do  however 
not  denot  •  dilTerent  denominations,  but  are  only 
different  names  of  a  particular  denomination.) 

Religious  Societies  cf  France. 

The  following  are  the  principal  Protestant 
Societies  of  France. 

J.  There  are  at  Paris  two  Biblical  Societies — 
the  one  called  Snr.iole  Hiblique  de  France;  the 
other  Snctklo  Btbliqtie  Protent'inte.  The  one  is 
orthodox,  the  other  rationalistic. 

2.  The  S'^ciittj  of  the  History  of  French 
Priilratantistn  collects  with  care  all  which  relates 
to  the  old  Hugenoti — their  synodic  delilierations, 

.    their  BulVerings.  their  heroic  virtues,  etc. 

3.  The  Society  of  PrntiSlam  ColUctioni  ad- 
dresses itself  to  the  poor,  and  asks  of  each  a 
subscription — of  one  cent  p'T  week. 

4.  T\iid  hvangelical  Societif  of  France  is  main- 
taineil  liy  the  members  of  independent  congre- 
gations. Its  design  is  to  proclaim  the  Gospel  to 
Catholics,  and  to  open  new  places  of  wor.-hip 
wherever  the  number  of  converts  has  become 
oonsiilerable. 

5.  The  Hunddy-iichoot  Society  deserves  also  to 
be  mentioned.  Many  thousand  children  have 
been  gathered  in  a  lirge  hall,  called  the 
Virqne  Niti'oleim,  and  th-re  pastors,  elders  and 
other*   have  addressed   brotherly   words  to  the 


members  of  the  rising  nenerati  in.  The  children 
were  attentive.  intereBted,  and  more  than  once 
encouraged  the  speakers  with  their  applause. 

6.  The  Kvatigrtical  Mission  Society  establish- 
ed in  France  more  than  thirty  years  since.  It 
has  foaniled  stations  at  Tahiti,  at  .'^negal,  at 
the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  etc.  Its  missions  at  the 
Cape  have  during  the  last  year  been  attacked 
and  grievously  maltreated  by  the  Boers,  or 
Dutch  settlers  of  that  region. 

7.  The  Central  Evan!;etization  Society  is 
doing  a  work  analogous  to  that  of  the  Evangeli- 
cal Society.  But  it  turns  its  efforts  and  rev* 
nues  entirely  to  the  benefit  of  scattered 
Protestants,  that  is  to  say.  of  individuals, 
and  families  who  have  taken  up  their  abmle  far 
from  any  place  of  worship,  in  the  midst  of  Catho- 
lic populations. 

8.  The  Tract  Society  (the  Paris  Religious  Tract 
Pociety )  moves  in  the  same  path  as  those  of  Lon- 
don, New  York,  Boston,  etc. 

9.  The  Society  of  Primary  Instruction  labors 
as  its  name  indicates,  to  increase  the  number  of 
the  public  schools,  and  to  send  good  teachers  in- 
to more  humble  village-. 

10.  The  Societe  ds  Ditconesses,  the  Socikib 
de  laColimie  Agricole.  the  Maisons  d'Orphelins 
d'"rph>:li'ies,  de  V'ifi//a)rfs  (Asylums  of  Orphans 
and  the  Aged)  devote  themselves  especially  to 
works  of  charity. 

Deaconesses. 

The  Kaiserswerth  Deaconesses'  Institution  hai 
139  stations  during  18C6.  There  were  4!'l  sisters. 
At  the  present  moment  tiie  number  am  mnts  to 
500.  The  hospital  has  admitted  8-0  paiien  s  in 
the  course  of  the  year.  The  Orphan  House 
in  Smyrna  was  supplied  with  20,  the  Servants' 
Refuge  in  Friedrichsdorf  with  5.  and  the  Ho.^pital 
at  Pesth  with  3  sisters.  Besides,  there  are  a 
number  of  institutions  under  their  care,  schools, 
in&rmaries,  almshouses,  etc. 

Protestantism  in  PortugaL 

A  protestant  congregation  has  been  formed  io 
the  Azores.  Another  has  been  formed  in  Lisbon, 
of  about  60  members,  who  meet  secretly  ou  Sun- 
day, for  fear  of  persecution. 

Religious  effects   at  the   Faiia  Ex- 
position. 

A  system  of  Bible  and  Tract  distribution  was 
organized  for  the  grand  Exposition  at  Pa-is,  by 
the  separate  or  conjoined  effo  ts  of  several  so- 
cieties, some  American.  Age^'ts  of  Sunday- 
school,  Tract,  and  Bible  Societies  were  in  con- 
stant attendance,  to  converse  with  suitably  dis- 
))nsed  visitors,  and  to  sell  or  give  awav  their 
publications.  The  '-Salle  Kvangelique"  was 
visited  daily.  Every  one  who  came  received  at 
least  a  Tract.  Twenty-two  thousand  sheets  were 
given  away  in  this  manner  on  one  Sunday.  The 
attempt  to  conduct  stated  religious  services  in 
the  "Salle  Kvangelique"  was  not  successful. 

Evangelization  in  Venice. 

The  Evangelical  work  is  prospering  in  Italy 
Four  hundred  and  thirty-six  persons  attend  th. 
services  at  Venice  with  more  or  less  regularitys 


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and  are  frif?n<lly  to  the  preaching  of  the  gospel. 
The  evanL;sii!>t.  hoijes  sooa  to  opea  a  class  oi' 
catechism. 

Freucli  Christian  Associatious. 


A  conference  nf  Youna:  Men's  Associations  was 
held  in  Pitris  ilurinjr  the  yjfir,  ni):ier  the  Pro- 
gidency  of  Ur.  Pan:  Cdok.  It  i?  pionouucid  suc- 
cessful, liarmoriiouii  and  fraternal.  yrance, 
Switzerliinil,  Kii;,!mC'1.  and  Araerici  were  repre- 
sented on  the  li-it  (.f  Vice  Presirl-nts.  Aiinthfir 
general  confererce  \va.^  appoinied  for  ]'s7'.\  at 
Amsterdam.  A  (rencral  coulerenoe  of  French 
Unions  was  also  re.iolved  uiion  to  meet  every 
three  years. 

Protestantism  in  Hungary. 

The  Protestant  Church  in  Hnnp-ary  has  attain- 
ed a  development  a-d  infliunce  which,  cinsitlei- 
ing  the  cbstnclei  against  which  it  had  •  tru/fxJed 
are  retrarded  by  a  writer  io  the  Christian  U'orV 
as  little  less  Ihnn  niiraculons.  It  is  (liv:ded  into 
two  branches,  the  Reformed  (Calvitiisti,)  an  I  the 
Lutherans.  The  Calvinists  are  nearly  all  Majry- 
ars,  and  are  ti\ice  as  numerous  as  the  Lutherans. 
The  characieiis  ic-  of  the  Pr  itestant  Church  in 
Hungary  are:  its  ln<lisf.oti'.i<in  to  amalgamate  its 
affairs  with  those  o!  the  state,  or  to  subnrdinate 
the  gospel  to  the  stare  interest,  the  participation 
of  the  laity  in  all  ec'clesiastical  funclirins  except 
the  administriUion  of  thesacraments,  thesolemn- 
Szation  of  inatrhnony,  and  ihe  rrdiuatiini  of 
ministers;  ami  its  consistent  adherence  tu  ortl  o- 
doxy.  The  Bible  and  Hymn  booli  are  generally 
distrilmted,  ^ind  'ii  is  no  rav(  occurtnce  for  po 'r 
and  simple  pevis^iits  to  be  so  well  versed  in  the 
Scriptures  thai,  tliey  can  pui.  to  shaine  maiy 
preacheis.''  T)ie  Churches  are  generally  well 
filled  on  Sujdays.  Many  Associations  for  the 
promotion  of  a  Cii>'istian  Spirit  have  long  exist- 
ed in  Hungary,  and  many  have  ancen  in  recent 
times  where  permitted  by  the  laws,  as  confer- 
ences of  presi-hfrs,  ciicles  of  school  teachers, 
Y»ung  Men's  Uuions,  Auxilinry  Unions  for  the 
poor;  and  an  Assiciatiun  of  Hongiviiun  Pr  test- 
tant  authors  i-  comemplatHd.  A  movement  h;is 
been  m:icle  tcwirds  ihe  di.sseinination  of  p'jpular 
Christiau  bimUs,  and  to  exiend  the  Gospel  in 
Croatia  and  Di.nuhian  prinoi|iaiities.  But  very 
little  has  been  done  for  missions  to  the  heith'-n. 
Signs  of  a  rtvival  of  lireater  religious  activity 
are  showing  tUemselves. 

Irish  Societies. 

The  Hibernian  Bible  Society  received  for  the 
year,  ending  lH<t  May  £4.590,  and  issued  67,165 
coines  of  the  Sovinturei.  Its  support  has  lieeo 
chiefly  drawn  from  the  South  and  its  benefit-- 
have  been  equally  dislribuled  all  over  the 
Island. 

The  Sunday-school  Society  reported  25C5 
schools,  with  J8  133  gratuitors  teachers,  and 
194,172  choiars.  It  has  issued  over  5<l.(l()0  Bibles 
and  Testaments  and  other  books.  Since  it  wa-f 
established.  58  years  ntzo,  it  ha.--  supplied 
1,527,105  Bibles  and  Testaments,  and  St)7  518 
portions  of  Scripture  and  Scripture  reading 
books. 

The  Protestant  Orphan  Refuge  snpports  445 
children,  making'  a  total  of  1887  provided  for 
since  its  fuuadatioQ.    Its  receipts  were  £5,51f . 


The  receipts  of  the  Orphan  Refuge  were  *176S. 

The  Church  Kducation  Sociuty  reports  1510 
schools,  with  68,277  children,  and  £45,619  in- 
cotne. 

The  Dublin  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
has  553  members,  with  47  affi.iated  societies, 
making  the  total  member.ship  ioOO. 

The  receipts  of  other  societies  are  as  follows  : 

Iri^li  Society £  8.460 

Irish  Cfurch  Missions 22,507 

Protestant  Orphan  Society 5,518 

Churc     Missionary  Society 6,059 

.So.;iety  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gcspel     4,596 
Colonial  and  CoDtinental  Society 41  g 

The  Protestant  Alliance  of  England. 

The  object  of  the  Protes'ant  Alliance  is  to 
ma'nfain  against  all  the  encioachments  of  Roman 
Ciiho'icism  the  doctrines  of  the  Reformation, 
an  I  the  Principles  of  reli  .'ious  liberty.  To  this 
e'  d  it  endeavors  to  awaken  British  Christians 
in  the  exTcise  of  their  constitutional  privileges, 
to  rej'ard  the  in'eresls  of  Protestantism  as  their 
i>aramount  concern  ;  to  unite  the  Protestants  of 
the  empire  in  demands  for  he  dicontinuince  of 
the  tiat'onal  support  and  enconracement  given 
to  Roman  Catholicism  :  and  to  extend  sympathy 
and  support  to  those  in  foreiu'n  countries  who 
may  be  suffering  oppress  on  for  the  cause  of  the 
go-pel.  In  accordance  with  this  plan,  its  atten- 
tion has  been  directed  to  various  objects,  such 
bs  preventing  the  introduction  of  sisterhoods  in- 
to hospitals  as  nurses,  keening  catholic  influences 
out  of  schools,  contending  acainst  the  progress 
of  ritualism,  and  the  modificalon  of  acts  of 
Parliament  containing  concessions  to  Roman 
C.itholics,  and  preventing  others  from  being 
passed.  It  has  in  hand  th"  erec'ion  of  a  memorial 
to  nine  of  the  principal  English  Protes'ant 
ma.'tyrs,  and  another  to  Bishop  Ferrar,  of  Wales, 
ihe  receipts  of  the  Society  have  fallen  off  on  ac- 
count of  the  stingencv  of  the  money  market,  and 
were  for  last  year,  £1823  Hs  8d. 

Protestantism  in  Italy. 

A  free  Italian  Church  has  been  organized  In 
Italy,  with  places  of  worship  in  Florence  and 
other  cities  The  sect  of  Plymouth  b-ethren 
have  succeeded  in  infusing  their  views  into  this 
movement. 

The  Vaudois,  or  Waldensian  Chinch  of  Pied- 
mont consistsof  six  communities  with  a  member- 
ship of  22,000,  It  has  23  principle  stations,  under 
its  evangelistic  agencies,  mostly  in  Northern 
Italy,  with  some  in  Naples,  Sicily,  Elba,  and 
France.  It  employs  19  i>a':tnr-,  II  evangelists, 
and  29  teachers,  and  has  15  scholars  in  the  theo- 
logical school  at  Florence.  The  number  of 
attendants  upon  public  worship  at  these  stations 
is  reckoned  at  from  20110  to  250n;  of  communi- 
cants. 11,095.  Income,  £5611,  Expenditure. 
£4911.  The  Synod,  at  its  last  nieetini.',  resolved 
to  employ  a  por.ion  of  the  timeof  the  evangelists 
iu  itinerating,  so  as  to  overtake,  as  much  aa 
possible,  the  calls  for  supplies. 

The  committee  of  evangelization  connected 
with  the  Waldensian  Church  have  also 'nder- 
ta  ingtoopen  two  schools  in  Venice,  and  had 
fifty  children  engaged  and  waiting  the  arrival 
of  the  'eachers  Anew  mi  sion  has  l)een  com- 
menced by  the  Waldensians  at  Mantua. 


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APPENDIX  TO  THE  DENOMINATIONAL  RECORD. 


nn  this  page  we  give  an  acC'iunt  of  some  eccle- 
•insticiil  111  i-liiitis,  wli  ch  look  place  after  the 
'•Ueuiiiiiiii.iiional  Record"  given  on  the  pre- 
ceediug  pages  had  been  closed. 

Lutheran. 

Hferting  of  the  '•General  Council." 
The  new  ecclesiastical  organization  of  those 
J.uthc'aiis  who  strictly  adhere  to  the  unaltered 
Confession  of  Aiifrsliurg  as  their  stindard  of 
Ijith,  was  compk-ted  by  the  'General  Council" 
which  met  at  Kurt  Wayne,  Indiana,  on  the  "idth 
»f  November.  The  Council  was  orfianized  by 
the  elecii  in  of  Rev.  G.  Bassler,  President,  Revs. 
H.  W.  Roth  and  G.  Fritschell,  Secretaries,  and 
Dr.  H.  H.  Muhlenberg.  Treasurer. 

The  fcdiowint.'  are  the  statistics  of  the  Synods 
composing  the  Council:  The  Pennsylvania  Syn- 
od. 125  pastors  and  over  50,(100  communicants: 
the  New  York  Ministerium.  5(1  pastors  and  above 
12,000  comiuunicants;  the  English  Synod  of  t)hio. 

12  pastors  and  near  250(1  comiuunicants  ;  the 
Pittsburg  Syr.od,  63  pastors  and  over  10,000 
communiciuts;  the  Synod  of  Illinois,  .^2  pa-tors 
and  nearly  400C  communicants;  the  Synod  of 
AVisconsin,  51  pastors  and  about  15,000  com- 
municants ;  the  German  Synod  of  Iowa,  52  past- 
ors and  7000  communicants;  theMichipan  Synod, 

13  pastors  and  above  3000  communicants  ;  the 
Canada  Synod,  23  pastors  and  over  7000  com- 
luunciints;  the  Augustana  (Swedish  and  Nor- 
wegian) Synod,  48  jnistors  and  near  12,000  cjra- 
jnunicaiits  ;  the  Minnesota  Synod,  22  pastors  and 
3000  commnnicant'i;  the  English  District  of  the 
Joint  Syno  1  of  Ohio,  40  pastors  and  8000  com- 
mnnicantp  ;  in  all  about  550  pastors  and  140,000 
communicant  members,  embraced  by  12  Synods. 
(Accnrdinu  to  the  '•lAit/ieran  Observer"  of  Phila- 
♦lelphia.  an  organ  of  the  General  Synod  tnese 
figures  are  too  high.  The  Lutheran  Almanac  of 
Kaltimore  gives  to  the  12  Synods  together  119,000 
communicants. 

A  resolution  was  passed  inviting  those  only, 
•'who  are  in  Ihe  unity  of  the  faith  witn  us.  as 
fet  forth  in  tlie  fundamental  articles  of  this 
General  Co"ncil  "  as  "v  siiing  brethren.". 

The  "Fundament:il  Principles"  were  then  taken 
up.  The  New  York  Ministerium  and  the  Wis- 
c  insin  .Synod,  hiiviog  jiassed  amendments,  it 
was  decide<l,  that  inasmuch  as  ten  Synods  had 
ndopted  them  without  any  change,  they  cannot 
iiow  be  8ui)jected  to  aniet'dmeat,  except  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  provision  which  they  contain. 
Other  parts  of  the  coiii^titution  were  then  con- 
Bidered,  amended  and  adopted.  The  ratio  of  re- 
jiresentation  was  based  upon  the  number  of  past- 
oral char;;es,  ten  of  which  are  to  be  entitled  to 
one  clerical  and  one  lay  didegate.  and  more  than 
live  additional  chargei  shall  entitle  a  Synod  to 
two  more  delegates. 

The  action  oif  the  Joint  Synod  of  Ohio  was  nre- 
pented,  declaring  the  conditions  upon  which  it 
could  alone  unite  with  the  Council,  viz:  ex- 
clusion of  coniriegations  and  ministers  belonging 
10  secret  S'Cieiies,  thee  iinmunioii  to  be  restrict- 
ed to  I.utlierans,  non-interchange  of  pulpits  With 
other  denominations,  and  the  rejection  of  Millen- 
srhinK.  After  much  debate,  a  Committee  was 
appointed,  which  reported  certain  principles  by 


which  the  Council  woubi   he  jrnvsrnedin  decid- 
ing these  questions,  when  regularly  jiresented.        j 

The  Missouri  Synod  having  addressed  a  com-* 
municaiion  to  tlie  Council,  proposing  a  Confer- 
ence with  it,  resolutions  were  adopted,  lauda- 
tory of  the  fidelity  of  the  Missourians  to  Ihe  faith 
of  the  Church,  and  expressing  a  willingness,  ai; 
some  future  meeting  of  the  Council,  to  meet 
them  in  a  Free  Conference. 

The  Iowa  Synod  presented  a  communication. 
containing  its  views  on  the  subjects  introduced 
by  the  JointSyno  i  of  Ohio,  on  which  a  Committee 
reported,  that  the  Council  was  not  ready  to  en- 
d'lrse  as  correct  the  lugic:il  deduction  and  ap- 
])licatiou  of  the  negative  part  of  our  Confessional 
RuoUs,  "made  by  the  lowa  Synod,  and  recom- 
meniiing  that  the  matter  be  referred  to  the  dis- 
trict Synods,  in  the  hope  that  the  Holy  Spirit 
Tvill  enable  them  to  see  eye  to  eye  in  all  the  de- 
tails of  practice  and  usage."  The  resolution  to 
publish  the  "Church  book"  prepared  by  a  Com- 
mittee of  the  Synod  of  Pennsylvania  was  adopt- 
ed. The  book  is  to  contain  as  much  of  the  Litur- 
iry  as  will  be  needed  for  public  worship,  a  col- 
lection of  about  six  hundred  hymns,  the  Unalter- 
ed Augsburg  Contessioa,  Luther's  Small  Cate- 
chism, and  a  collection  of  Family  Prayers.  A 
Committee  was  appointed,  to  correspond  with 
Lutheran  churches  in  the  Danish  Wesr  India  Is- 
lands, and  the  Russian  Possessions,  when,  after 
a  vote  of  thanks  ti  the  peojile  of  Fort  Wayne  for 
theh-  hospitality,  the  Council  adjourned  to  meet 
in  the  English  Lutheran  Church  of  Pittsburg, 
at  such  time  as  the  officers  shall  designate. 

Presbyterian. 

Southern  Presbyterian  General  Assembly. 
The  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  United  States,  or  S>uthei  n  General 
Asstinldy,  met  in  Nashville.  Tenn..  on  the  aistof 
November.  Delegates  were  present  from  the 
Synods  of  Alabama,  Arkansas.  Georgia,  Memphis, 
Mississippi,  Nashville,  North  Carolina,  South 
Carolina,  Texas  and  Virgin  a.  The  Committee 
who  had  been  appiiinted  to  confer  with  a  com- 
mittee of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church 
on  the  subject  of  union,  reported  that  they  found 
all  things  favorable  to  union  except  that  the 
Cumberland  Presbyterians  asked  for  modificat- 
ions of  doctrines,  some  of  which  were  only  verbal 
in  their  character,  but  others  so  fund:imental  as 
to  require  the  deliberation  of  the  General  As- 
sembly. A  Commitie  from  the  "declaration  and 
testimony"  Syn'>d  of  Kentucky  presented  the  case 
of  that  body,  which  was  admitted  tn  the  Generjvl 
Assembly.  The  Kev.  Dr.  Pressly  of  the  Associate 
Reformed  Presbyterian  Church,  addressed  the 
Assembly  to  the  effect  that  the  body  he  repre- 
sented declined  the  terms  of  Union  tendered  by 
the  ])revious  General  Assembly.  The  report  of 
the  Church  sustentation  fund  shows  that  104 
ministers  representing  perhaps  230  churches, 
have  received  aid  from  it.  The  foreign  mission 
contributions  of  the  churches  were  reported  at 
$13,000.  Eighty  six  thousand  b..oks  hikI  335.000 
copies  of  the  ChiUtrcns  l'rir>i(l\\\\e  bren  publish- 
ed during  the  year.  The  Unok  of  Chuicli  order 
was  reported  rejected  by  a  mLij,.nty  o.  the  Pres- 
byteries. 


61 

STATISTICAL  DEPARTMENT- 


The  Creeds  of  the  World. 

It  is,  of  course,  extremely  difficult  to  ascertain 
th«  numerical  strength  of  religious  denomin- 
ations. The  most  trustworthy  statistics  of  the 
class  are  those  of  the  religious  denominations 
which  annually  ascertain  the  number  of  their 
members.  This  is  the  case  with  most  of  the  de- 
nominations of  the  United  Slates,  with  most  of 
the  disseutei  s  in  England  and  with  some  of  the 
free  dooomiuations  on  the  Continent  of  Europe. 
In  most  of  the  European  countries,  the  state 
governments,  at  the  official  census  of  the  popu- 
lation, ascertain  the  population  connected  with 
each  church.  As  a  general  rule  it  may  be  as- 
sumed, that  the  number  of  actu Hi  members  multi- 
jilied  by  2Ji  will  be  about  equal  to  Ihe  number 
of  population  connecCud  with  a  Church,  | 

Total  Popul.  Rom.  Cath, 

America 72,8()U,(HiO  4-.i,700,0U0 

Europa 287,0ll!i,0(;0  140,2(l'',(l00 

Asia 798,600,01  0  4,f.U0,0(() 

Africa ISB.OOO.OCO  J,1(MI.000 

Aastralasia  and  Polynesia  .. .     3,800,0(0  400,000 

1,350,200,01.0  195,000,000 


Tt.e  collective  name  of  Pro!e5fants  has  been  re- 
tained in  the  foiluwiug  tables   for  all  Christians 
who  do  not  belong  to  either  the  Roman  Cathulic 
or  the  Greek  or  one  of  the  other  E:istern  Episc-i- 
I  pal  Communions.    The  name   is   objected  to  by 
I  large  portion  of  some  of  the  deoommations  em- 
i  braced  under  it,  but  no  other   name,  that  would 
I  be  appropriate,  has  been  proposed. 

The  following  is  the  estimated   summary  of  the 
I  aggregate  population   of  the   world,  ami   of  the 
j  total  number   of  Roman   Catholics,  Protestants 
and  Christians  in  general      In    the  latter   num- 
ber  are  embraced,  beside  Roman  Catholics  and 
Protestants,  tiie  membership   of  the  Greek   and 
I  0  her  Eastern   religions.     As   we  cm   only   esti- 
1  mate,  we   leave  out  numbers   smaller   then  ouo 
tiundert  thousand. 


90,900,000 


Tot.  Christ. 

70,2'I0,II0U 

260,00(1.000 

12.900.000 

4,900,000 

1,400,009 

369,400,000 


Ecclesicistlcal  Statistics  of  America. 


Total  Popul.  Protectants.  Rom.  Cath. 

United  States  of  America 31,429,m1  2J,(tOO,000  4,500,000 

(with  the  late  Russian  AmericaJ 70,000  

Mexico 8,218,080  .'i,0;)0  8,200,000 

Central  America - 2, odd. (100  2,500,000 

U.  S.  of  Colombia 2,791,473  4,000  2,79(1,000 

Venezuela l,5fi5.i'O0  1.500,0(io 

Ecuador... 1.040.371  ....  1,040,000 

Peru 2,500,000  1,000  2,49J,O(i0 

Bolivia 1,987,352  l,987,.'iO0 

Chili 2. 08-1, 945  10,(.'(i0  2070.000 

Brazil 9  lOfi.OOO  80.000  6.020,000 

Argentine  Republic 1,171,800  10,000  l.lOtl.OOO 

Paraguay 1,837.431  .    ...  l,:^37.i!0a 

Urugay 240,965  3,000  237,0  lO 

Haytiand  St.  nomingo  900,000  10,000  8Su,000 

Dominion  of  Canada  (incl.  Prince  Edward  Island  and 

New  Foun.Uand)  (1861) 3  295.706  1.750,000  l,'1'i5.flrK 

Other  BrikishPossessions 1,140,000  600,000  ISO.OOt 

French                    '•(1662) 30'>,9I2  30R.0((0 

Spanish                  "   1.032.002  1.032,000' 

Dutch                      " 66,703  35,000  3O,00C> 

Swedish                  '* 18,000  )          ,,,,,,,,  >           ,„„., 

Daniiih                    " 48,111  j         "''^™'  |          '"•"«- 

72,873,402  27,583, OoO  42,793,000 

At  the  usual  rate  of  increase  in  the  several  i  1867,  would  amount  to  about  80  000,000,  of  whom 

countries    O'    America    since    the   la.st    census,     30,500,000   ma.v  be  reckoned  as  Protesiauta  and 
the  aggregate  ijopulation  at  the  close  of  this  year  1  46,500,900  as  Roman  Catholics, 


62 
Ecclesiastical  Statistics  cf  Europe. 

Total. 

P.iTtugal 4,3'19,y66 

S|)«in 16.;tl»2,625 

>  r«iicB 3S,(i()7.U<J4 

Xorth  Ocrman  C'lnfederation i9,-'4h,5:(3 

South  GuriuaD  States 8.5'-'4.460 

Austria 32.573,0()2 

Italy 24.55ll,M5 

I'apil  Stites titfO.OUO 

San  Marino 7,600 

Switzerland 2,510.494 

HollauJ  (incl.  of  Luxemburg) 3,735  682 

BelKium 4,3i)3,0vil 

O.reat  Britain 29,591,(1(19 

Denmai  k l,tiM,0()4 

Sweden  and  Norway 5,6l4.3b6 

Russia 67 ,71il,  1 76 

Turkey 15.725.967 

Greece 1.096,310 


rotestanta. 

Kmn  Cath. 

7,0(10 

4,340,000 

10,000 

16,280.001 

1,6110.000 

36,000.000 

20,682,(100 

7,f75,O0O 

3,351,0(10 

4,935.000 

3,237,(J('0 

25,058,000 

60,000 

24,000,000 

1,000 

6,680,000 

7,000 

1,482,000 

1.023,000 

2,200,(100 

1,450.000 

25.000 

4,8  0,000 

23,000,000 

6,000,000 

1,675,000 

1,000 

5,800,(100 

5.100 

3,918,000 

7,081.000 

30.000 

640,000 

3.000 

60,000 

287,066  174  67,051,000  I46,23O,0iiO 

The  population  connected  with  the  Greek  Church  is  about  70,000,000.  The  number  of  Jewi 
la  estimated  ut  3,300,000,  and  that  of  the  Mohammedans  at  4,800,000. 

Ecclesiastical  Statistics  of  Asia. 

The  total  popoulation  in  the  following  column  is  taken  from  Brehra's  Geographisches  Jahrbnek 
(Vol.  I.  isOO.) 

Inhabitants.        Protestaata.        Rom.  Cath.        Tot.  Chtsh, 

Russian  Dominions 9,:i27.9ti6  40,0(0  K'.OOO  4,500,000 

Turkish  Uominious 16,050,900  10,000  260,000  3,270.000 

Arabia 4,0(10.000  

Persia 5,000,' 00  2,000  10,000  70,000 

Affghanist.in  and  Herat 4,(iO(i.onO  .....  .... 

Beloochistan 2,000.0(10  ....  ....  

Toorkislan 7,870.000 

China  and  dependencies 477. S^O. 0(10 

Japan 35,000,000 

India  (incl.  of  British  dominions  in  Far- 
ther India.) 187.694  323 

Ceylon 1,919,187 

Farther  India  21.109,(00 

Easl  India  lilauds 27.164.728 

79S  635,504  723.000  4.580,000  12.951.000 

To  the  East  Asiatic  religions  a  population  of  about  600,000,000  belong.  The  number  of 
Msbamniediins  in  Asia  is  estimated  at  50,000,000.  The  number  of  Jews  will  hardly  be  more  tLaa 
about  5UO,000. 

Ecclesiastical  Statistics  of  Africa, 


20,000 
1,000 

70n,000 
10,000 

750,000 
11,000 

500,000 

1,600,000 

2,200,000 

150,000 

2,000,000 

2.150.000 

The  total  population  of  Africa  is  estimated  in 
Brehm's  tiiti>gr:ip'iisclies  Ja/irOurh  (Vol.  I.  18fi(i) 
a  itaodard  authority  in  geographical  matters, 
at  about  Its. 000. 0(10  divided  as  follows  : 

1.  Kasicrn  Africa  29.610.000 

2.  South  Africa  15.843.000. 

3.  Islands  in  the  Indian  (Jcean  3,838,000. 

4.  Islauds  in  the  Atlantic  Ocean  114,000. 

R'im.  Cath, 

British  Possessions I4(i.('(i0 

French  " 1  :i3,O0O 

Portuguese    " 439.i  00 

t^panish  " 12  000 

Angola.  Benguela.  Mozambique lOo.OOO 

Algiers 185,O(i0 

Egypt 27.(  00 

Aliy-'sinia 30,(j00 

Liberia 

Morocco  and  Fez 2'10 

Tunis  and  Tripoli.   10.000 

Madagascar 1,000 


4.  The  Northern  Coast  4,000.000. 

6.  Moham.  Count,  of  Ceut.  Africa  61,100,000. 

7.  Western  Africa  8.308,000. 

8.  Equatorial  Territory  43,000  OCO. 
The  Statistics  of  the  Christian   population  or 

raiher   the   population   under   the   influence   of 
Christianity)  are  about  as  follows  : 


Protestants. 

Tot.  Christ. 

650,000 

800,000 

140,0CO 

439.000 

12,000 

100.000 

10.000 

20!l.0:)(l 

2,000 

2(iii,(00 

J,000,000 

50,000 

50,000 

26,000 

21,600 

i.077,MOO  732,01,0  4,Ma2,0t,0 


v<f3 

MiihamtnedaDS  are  estimafed  at  about  100,000,000  :    Jews  in  Morrocco,  340,000  :    also  nameroas 
in  Abysainia.     The   rest  belongs  to  various  pagan  religions. 

Ecclesiastical  Statistics  of  Australasia  and  Polynesia. 

Total  Population.  Protestants.  Kom.  Cath. 

New  South  Wales 378.935 

Victoria 574.331 

South  Australia 14('.416 

West  Australia 18.780 

Tasmania 92.5ia 

New  Zealand J75,:<57 

Queensland 59,712 

1,439,050  1,050,00  350,000 

The   totol   population  of  Australasia   and  Polynesia  is  about  3.854,000;  of  whom  about  1,200,000 
may   be  e-tim;vted  as  Protesiants  and  4(10.000  as  Roman  Cailiolics. 
The  following  are  detailed  statistics  ot  three  of  the  Australian  Colonies. 


NEW  SOUTH  WALES. 

Numbers  1861. 

Church  of  England 159  95R 

iTfSbyterihiis 34  692 

Wesleyans •  23.t)93 

CongregatioLalists 5,4 1 1 

OtherP  otestants 9,Ht>3 

Roman  Catholics 99,193 

Hebrews 1.75'.) 

llohammedaus  and  Asiatic  creeds ]2.9i'H 

All  others 3,393 

There  were  at  the  same  period,  270  churches 
and  447  chapel.'*,  or  buildinscs  used  as  such,  i)ro- 
Yiding  .TCComodarion  for  119.075  people,  that  is, 
rather  under  one-third  of  the  total  population, 
havinj:;  an  oversige  attemlance  of  86,674,  or  under 
oue-fuurtli  ot  the  population. 


SOUTH  AUSTRALIA. 


Numbers  1861. 


Church  of  England 43 

Kv)oiaii  Cafholicj 15, 

Wesleyan  Methodists  ...    14 

Gi-rman  LHther.ans 11 

Independents (i 

Church  of  .Scotland 4 

Bible  Christians 4 

Free  Church  of  Scotland 4 

Primitive  Methodists 3 

Bn;^  sts 3 

Ch!*.ians 1 

United  Presbyterians 1 

Other  Chris tiHD  Denominations 

Unitarians 

Hebrews 

Jloraviatis 

New  Church 

Society  of  Friends 

Mchanimedans  and  Pagans  

Not  specilie  J 1 , 


Total ^ 126,530 


VICTOR  FA. 


DEMOMINATIOirS. 

Numbers  1861 

Church  of  Engl,  and  Episcop.  Protest.. .  .205,695 

Free  Church 454 

Protestants  (not  otherwise  defined) 5,919 

Presbyterian  Church  of  Victoria 5,(i5 j 

Church  of .ScodanI 3f.,917 

I'ree  Church  of  Scotl.  and  Free  Presb 21,219 

United  Pie.-^b.vierian  Church 10,734 

Other  Presbyterian  Churches 346 

Presbyterians  (not  otherwise  defined)  ...     6,835 

Unitarians 1,430 

.Society  of  Friends 273 

Calvinists  and  Calvinistic  Methodists 650 

other  persuasions I,2.i7 

Roman  Cati.olics ]07,6l(» 

Catholics  (no   otherwise  defined)  ^,219 

Greek  Church 239 

Israelites  and  Chiislian  Israelites 395 

Latter  Day  Saints  or  Mormons I(i8 

Jews 2.9()3 

Wesleyans,  Wesl.  Meth.,  and  -Vlethod 40.799 

"Primitive  Me'hodists 0,775 

Wesleyan  Methodists  As  oci:>tionandUnit, 

Free  Methodist  Churches 1,448 

Bible  Christians 651 

Other  Wesleyan  Methodi-ts 140 

Independents  or  Ccngregatioualists 12.777 

Baptists 9,001 

Lotherans  and  German  Prote8t;ints 10.043 

Unsectavian,  no  den.m.  and  .S  cularists. .        953 

'N'o  religion' ,       441 

Mohammedans   189 

'^agans  (incl.  of  Chinese) 1,672 

Chinese 24,5.')1 

Unspecified  adults 2,391 

"    children m 642 

Objecting  to  Siate 11.53:i 

Uneuumerated  m'gratory  population 3,361 

Total 54U,32i 


ti 


Bnptdsta. 

i.  ReguiaT  Baptists  tn  tht  United  States  in  1868. 

Stales.  Assoc. Church.  Tot.Pop. 

Alabama,  IffiO 2a  buS  61,219 

Arkainas,  i860 16  3il  11,341 

CKlifornitt 2  36  1,991 

Connecticut 7  114  18,447 

l>elaware —  5  609 

District  of  Columbia —  7  2,102 

Klorida,1860  5  \H  6,463 

Georgia,  1869 39  994  8»,567 

Illinois 36  719  46,129 

lodiana _ 30  450  29.103 

Indian  Teiritcry,  1860 4  45  4,3flO 

Iowa 17  278  14,377 

Kansas,  1865 4  46  1,119 

Kentucky,  1865 47  944  81,631 

Louisiana,  1869 10  209  10.264 

Maine 13  208  19,870 

Maryl.xnd 1  39  4,348 

Massachusetts 14  285  37,948 

Michigan 13  239  15,378 

Minnesota 6  123  3,434 

Mississippi,  1860 22  598  41.610 

Missouri...    37  749  44,877 

Nebraska,  1865 1  10  217 

>ewnampshire 7  84  7.718 

New  Jersey 5  129  21,094 

New  Mexico,  1864 —  1  49 

New  York 45  814  91,92s 

North  Carolina,  1860 27  696  60.532 

Ohio 30  482  33.809 

Oregon 3  29  1,082 

Pennsylvania 18  427  47,700 

Khodelsla'd 3  56  8  537 

South  Carolina.  1660 18  473  62.984 

Tennessee,  1600 24  663  46.561 

Texas 22  456  19.089 

Vermont 7  108  7,714 

Virginia 22  622  116,526 

AVe«t  Virginia 8  220  12.774 

Wisconsin 12  172  8  891 

Germ.  Hml  Dutch  Church..  2  76  3,896 

Swedish  Churches 1  13  600 

Welsh  CliurcLes,  1860 3  34  1,400 

Tot.  in  theUnit»d  Sta'e'.  .609  12.955  1,094.8(16 

Tlie  tn'nl  pumt)er  of  niiiii.-ters  (reported  at  tlje 
dates  ah.)ve  given  in  tli"  several  States)  is 
b.3'16.  and  of  baptism-.  92,075. 

'i.-baptistn  171  tiie  Untisli  Frovincfs  nf  America, 
Assoc.Church.Toi.I'op. 

Kova  Scotia 3  155  16..Su6 

New  Bruuiwick ...2  119  8  755 

Cnadii 11  275  15.C91 

West  India  Inlands 4  101  22,261 


650 


.415 


Grand  Tot.  in  N.  America  . .  .22 

Tliese  fiovince*  report  444  miuis^ers  and  2o36 
bapti!^ms, 

•  3. — UlKtr  Baptist  Denominations  if  America, 
Assoc. Church.Tot.  Pop. 

Antl-MisBinn  Baptists 18'l     1.8'i0    105.ni,0 

Ffe-Will  iiaptistg      147     1,264      56.25H 

8ix-l'rinriple  Ba;)ti3t,  1600  .. — •  18        3.000 

K«veiilli-I)ny  Kaptists    4 

Church  of  God,  (Winebren- 

narians.)* 10 

Disciples  (Cflmpbellites)!. . .. 

Tmikers.  l.'-f)"   i -,- 

SlonnniiileK.  IM'iO 


08 

360 

5,000 
200 


7,039 

32.000 

500,000 
20.000 
30.280 


Tlios*  deuouiiuuiions  bav«  5,U22  miuUter*. 


4. — "Baptists  in  Great  Britain. 

At  the  session  of  the  (Tarticnlar)  BapMjt 
Unim  of  Etigla-'d  in  April  1866,  2023  churchei 
reported,  209.773  members,  showing  an  increase 
from  the  year  before  of  130  churches  and  4973 
members.  But  400  small  churches  are  still  un- 
reported. Fifty-six  new  cha))el8  were  erected 
during  the  year,  with  sittings  for  about  25,000 
persons,  and  25  new  churches  w«re originated. 

The  following  statistics   of  other  Baptists  ia 
Great  Britain  are  given  by  the  census  of  1851. 
(In  England.)  No.ofCliurch.No.of  sitt'gs. 

r.eneral  Baptists 93  20,539 

Serenth-Diy  Baptists 2  390 

New  connect.  Gen.  Bapt...  182  62,604 

Scett.  Bapt,  (in  Engl.) 15  2,547 

Bantists  in  Scotland 119  26,076 

The  annual  meetlngsi  of  the  Christian  fCamp- 
bellite)  Churches  of  England,  Scotland,  Ireland 
and  Wales,  wliich  was  held  at  Nottingham  in 
August  lfe66,  reported  505  ad^litions.  The  pre- 
sent membership  of  the  Churches  represented  ifl 
4G07.  How  many  Churches  were  unrepresented, 
is  not  stated.  The  inrome  for  the  year  was  £610 
123.  6d.      The  expenditures  £482  Os.  11  Jid. 

5. — Baptist  Benevolent  Societies  in  the   United 
States. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  Baptist  Be- 
nevolent and  other  societies,  with  the  date  of 
their  organization,  aud  amount  of  receipts  for 
the  year  preceding  tlie  la»t  report.  U  Araericaa 
Baptist  Missionary  Union,  organized  1814,  la't 
year's  receipts,  $191,714,000;  1[  American  Bap- 
tist Publication  Society,  1824,  $240,165  88,  and 
has  published  171,037,050  18mo.  pag>-s  during 
the  yeir  ;  H  American  Baptist  Home  ilissiou  i^o- 
ciety,  1832,  $17(J.899  0'*:  American  and  Foreign 
Biule  Society,  1838,  $51,407  45;  If  Anieri-an 
Baptist  Free  Mission  Socisty,  1843,  $21. 31b  97; 
U  .-^raerioan  Baptist  Historical  Society,  1843. 
$368  21,  and  459  volumes  added  to  ihc  library. 

6.—Bnpti3t  Periodicals  in  tlie  United  States. 

Thirty-six  Bnptist  Periodicals— 24  weekly,  10 
monthly,  a'ld  2  quarterly  :  ar<  published  in  the 
United  Slates,  and  3  weekly  peri  dic:i'3  in  the 
Biitisii  provinces.  Tlie  Bnpti^t  educalionti.l  in- 
stitutions in  the  United  --tiies  number  30  colleges 
and  14  theological  institutions. 

7. — Baptist  Missions  on  the  Continent  of  Europe. 

Church    Memb.    Memb. 

Dec.  I  s66Dec.  1  - 65Deo.l8l>fi 

Frame   6 

GerniHuy 64 

I)i'ijinar< 16 

HlUinrt 1 

Switzerland 1 

France  (Germ,  miss.)  .. .     1 

J'olan.l 1 

Kussia 3 

Sweden lf'3 


3i7 

358 

11.239 

1I.84 

1,702 

1,72B 

36 

!>-2 

269 

iu 

67 

Cfi 

268 

312 

6'.  17 

857 

6  489 

6.875 

Total. 


.276        21,U64        22.402 


*  The  estim-ities  nf  thisdenominntion  vary  from 
25.000  to  40,000.  Tliefiy.ues  heie  given  avo  a 
medium. 

t  Theie  are  supported  by  this  denomination 
11  C(dl.>geB  and  Unirrrsities,  27  female  Colleges 
nud  MiJiiiiaries.  and  26  periodicals  ;  viz.  fi  week- 
ly, 2  si-iiii-monlhly,  IC  monthly,  and  one  quttrler- 
1/  periudicul. 


«9 


There  are  ISOO  stations  and  outstations  coo- 
Dectud  with  the  European  missions,  and  about 
31)0  pre^ichers  and  assistants.  Baptisms  last 
year,  2:^80.  Exclusive  of  the  Swedish,  these 
churches  contributed  40,599  Prussian  thalera  to 
he  misiiiouary  fund. 

8. — Asiatic  Missions, 

The  Asiatic  Missions  are  in  Burmah  and  the 
neighboring  liintrdoms,  S^iam  and  China.  They 
embrace  16  stations  where  missionaries  reside, 
and  400  ovitstaiions  with  90  American  mission- 
aries, and  300  native  preachers  and  assistants, 
and  about  16,000  members. 

The  Mission  Press  at  Rangoon  printed   during 
the  year    endinir  September  30.,    1865,   171,960 
copies   of  books  and   tracts    (mostly   in   native 
languages^  giving  a  total  of  8,573,200  pages, 
9, — Bap'tst!)  in  Australia. 

There  are  3424  Baptists  In  South  Australia,  and 
96t)l  in  Victoria. 

10. — Mennoniles  in  Europe  and  Asia, 

The  number  of  Mennonites  in  Europe  and  Asia- 
tic Knssia  was  computed  in  1860  at  10,000,  and 
an  estimate  made  at  this  time  gave  the  total 
Mennonite  population  of  the  worli  (not  memliers 
but  the  entire  i)opulation  connected  with  the 
Congregations)  at  222,237. 

Msthodists. 

1. — Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
The  following  table  presents  the  presentwiem- 
bership  and  thei  .crease,  by  Conferences, iu  both 
the  ministerial  force  and  the  laity: 

Conferences.  B.S      ^  S 

>  a      B  •- 

Alabama 46  9, 

Bailimoce 107  15 

Black  River 213  20, 

Ctlifornia lt)6  5. 

Central  (ierman 90  9 

Central  Illinois     170  21, 

Cinlral  Ohio 128  20. 

Ci:-.cinnati   157  3J, 

Colorado 10 

Delaware 40  9. 

Des  Moines  90  12. 

Detroit 174  19, 

Enst  Baltimore..  .* 231  38. 

East  Genesee 203  23, 

Eastern  German 29  2, 

East  Maine      91  10, 

K,ia 258  31, 

Genesee 1^0  9> 

Georgia 40  10, 

Germany  and  Switzerl'd. .  43  5 

Holston M  2^' 

Illinois l^y  32 

Irrdia  Mission 24 

Indiana 133  28. 

Iowa.. -.110  19. 

Kansas 74  7, 

Kentucky 81  13, 

Liberia  Mission... 19  1. 

Maine 120  12, 

Michigan 16fi  19. 

Minnesota 101  8 

Mississippi 31  7, 


Missouri  and  Arkansas.. ..161  20416 

Nebraska 30  2,106 

Nevada II  367 

Newark 159  27,465 

New  England -  ...206  22.2y6 

New  Hampshire 127  12  620 

New  Jersey 152  27.588 

New  York 257  37.446 

New  York  East 215  35,312 

North  Indiana 137  30  079 

North  Ohio  123  16,371 

Northwestern  German  .. ..  85  6,323 

Nor;hwest  Indiana 107  18,016 

Northwest  Wisconsin 40  3.351 

Ohio 157  31,849 

Oneida. 188  19,697 

Oregim   59  4218 

Philadelphia 280  57,687 

Pittsburj;h 232  44.049 

Providence 131  I7,4l9 

Roc^  River 205  21  033 

South  Carolina 29  9,668 

Southeastern  Indiana 84  17,713 

Southern  Jllinois 127  22.238 

Soutliwestern  German 94  7.557 

Tennesoes 61  6.110 

Texas 17  1.584 

Troy 218  27  585 

Upper  Iowa 138  16.669 

Vermont ]  38  13,275 

Virginia 14  671 

Wa»hinKt..n 75  17,463 

Won  Viginia   107  26.783 

West  Wisconsin 77  ?.200 

Wi.-cinain 155  l.i.333 

Wyoming 118  1 7,033 


a 

A 

,341 

0341 

768 

1.721 

,933 

dec.  566 

.766 
592 

1,284 
438 

,736 

067 

1,332 
923 

,008 

208 

524 

193 

,024 

809 

882 

793 

368 
306 

,858 

2,228 

1,404 

438 

,659 

231 

,052 

dec.  625 

,873 

1.003 

,465 

194 

235 

928 

10,235 

578 

■720 

5.509 

835 

2,205 

358 

93 

.740 

1.317 

186 

1,641 

046 

1  119 

,997 

7,10) 

,376 

dec.  54 

,538 

401 

993 
790 

1,929 
48 

,899 

5,207 

7,70a 

109 

122 

8,210 

1,25S 

597 

dec.  182 

939 

1.430 

1.82-i 

1,125 

5«4 

444 

181 

C84 

412 

873 

103 

868 

1,184 

683 

6,531 

dec.  429 

1,08.1 

557 

2,934 

l,56Sf 

1.124 

1,598 

'Mi 

671 

4.251 

7,673 

798 

1.5(17 

191 


Total 7.989  1,144,763    

Last  year 7,576  1,(132,184    

Increase 413     112,579    

0{  Annual  Conferences  there  are  68,  an  in- 
crease of  four  over  the  previous  year.  This  in- 
crease has  been  obtained  by  extending  the 
work  in  the  South.  The  new  conferences  or- 
ganized are  :  Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  or- 
ganized .January  3.;  Texas,  January  3.;  Georgia, 
October  10.  ;  Alabama,  October  17.— The  number 
of  Churches  (houses  of  worship)  is  11,138,  beinx 
an  increase  for  the  year  of  676 ;  nuinbor  of 
parsonages,  3,570.  an  increase  of  256.  The  total 
value  of  these  cliurch  edifices  and  parsonages  is 
441,012,479,  being;  an  increase  for  the  year  of 
$6,997,516.  The  increase  in  p  tnonage  properttf 
alone  is  nearly  a  mllion  of  dolLirs.  Full  reports 
of  the  centenary  returns  had  not  been  made  up 
to  November.  Thirty-seven  conferences  had  re- 
ported a  total  of  $6,141,027.  The  returns  from  the 
remaining  conferences  it  was  expected  would 
swell  this  amount  to  over  seven  miUiona  of 
dollars. 

The  Statistics  of  the  Principal  Societies  of  the 
Church  durinst  the  year  1866  were  as  follows  : 

Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist  E/nscopal 
r/iurrAorg.anized  in  r819.  Receipts  last  year, 
$671,090  66.  Appropriations  foi  1807,  $1,030,978 
00.  It  supports  2341  missionaries  and  ministeis 
to  75,754  members. 

Church  Extension  Society  organized  1864.  Re- 
ceipts in  1866,  $60,000.  It  has  assisted  during 
the  year  in  building  139  churches. 

Sunday  School  Vnion.  Contributions  $19,859 
89.    Sunday  Schools,  13,845  :  officer*  and  teacU- 


C6 


en,  lfi2.0nn ;  scholar*,  980,706;  volnmes  In 
libraries  i.Oi^.Hi.  All  show  an  increase  from 
lost  year.     I'agna  printeil  5!j9,74l  fi'24. 

Trarl  Snruly.  Keceipts.  $14.57124,  an  In- 
creas-of  $1007  63  from  la-it  year.  Disbur^Hments 
$12,318  Ii3.  y.<f;-i  printed  la-t  year.  3,83ii.UllO. 
Ailil  i-')i>'l  Vfics  rcJuceil  to  12mo  pages,  and  we 
have  22. (lis  Onil.  One  thousand  dollars  have 
be-n  grHiitfd  to  Germany,  and  smaller  amounts 
to  India  and  other  fields. 

There  are  under  charge  of  th«  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Chiiic!i,  iwen'y-three  Colleges  and  Uni- 
versities, five  Tfieolojjical  Seminaries,  and  82 
Seminarie^.  Female  Colleg'-s  a',d  .Academies. 

The  li  nk  Cunctrn  ol  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  beloiigi  to  the  General  Conference  and 
is  under  its  control.  It  has  two  publishing 
houses  at  New  Yoik  and  at  Cincinnati,  under 
the  charjie  of  .•separate  comraitt  es  and  separate 
publishing  agents,  and  depositories  in  Boston. 
Chicago  Pitts  lurgh,  Baff.ilo,  St.  I,)ui-',  and  San 
Krancisco.  Tlie  B  jok  .Agents  publish  over  nine- 
teen hundred  different  bound  V  'lumes,  and  the 
unbouii  I  anil  tract  list  embraces  about  one  thou- 
Band.  the  tracts  varying  from  two  to  sixly-four 
))ages  eacli.  The  books  and  tracts  are  in  Eng- 
lish, German,  Welsh,  Swe<lish,  Danish,  and 
French.  Toe  sales  for  1806  were,  at  .New  York. 
$775,513  19:  at  Cincinnati,  $628,453  66  ;  total 
$1,303, yUti  92, 


Sixteen  Periodicals:  1  quarterly  review,  I 
monthly,  9  weekl'es,  one  German  vree^ly,  I 
mi  sionary  journal,  2  iunday  scliod  papers,  ani 
1  paper  in  the  interest  of  the  M.  E.  Traci  Societ/ 
ar.;  ]>ublished  by  direction  of  the  General  Con- 
ferenc :. 

The  Compirntive  Progress  of  the  Methodist 
R»)iMCopal  Church  during  the  C>st  century  ot 
its  existence  is  shown  by  ihe  following  table  : 


Years. 

1707 

1770 

1786 

17% 

1^06.... 


Trav.  Preach.  Memb. 


24 
117 
293 
452 

'6 695 

ls20 1.4(6 

1835 2.928 

1846 3  682 

1956 5.877 


4.921 

20,689 
56,664 
130,560 
214.235 
360,800 
650.109 
'644,223 
800.327 


I860 7,576  1 ,032, 1 84 

*  By  the  withdrawal  and  sepiration  of  8outTl- 
ern  conferences  in  1844,  organizing  the  Metho- 
di-t  Eoi.<copal  Church.  South,  the  Methodist 
Kpisc  ipal  Church  lost  1,345  traveling  preachers 
and  495.288  members,  and  yet,  so  rapid  was  her 
(■rowth  during  the  decade,  that  at  its  close  (two 
years  after  the  separation)  there  was  a  net  gain 
of  754  preachers,  and  a  luck  ot  only  5.874  mem- 
bei  s  of  making  up  the  number  lost. 


2. — Methodist  Episcopal  Ckurch,  South. 

The  following  statistics  were   published   in   the  Southern   Methodist  Almanac   for  1860. 
official  statistics  of  the  Church  have  been  published  since  the  beginning  of  the  war. 


No 


Conferences.  Trav.  Preach. 

Ken;ucky 81 

liouisville 86 

Missouri 84 

St.  Louis 103 

Kansas  Mission 24 

Tennes  -ee 1 90 

Ilolston ....no 

Memphis    152 

Mississippi 124 

Louisiana  • 68 

Virgin  a    174 

Westi-rn  Virginia 57 

North  Caro  ina 117 

South  Carolina 150 

Georgia 197 

A  abaina 202 

Florida.   77 

Texas  130 

Kasiern  Texas 80 

Arkansas    53 

Wachiia 66 

luiliaii  Mis-ion 34 

Pacific 49 

ToUl 2,408 


Members  in  Society 

Whites. 

Col.  .'tnd  In. 

17,737 

6  1 96 

22,068 

4  160 

17,566 

1,915 

22.074 

1,669 

590 

156 

37,3.19 

7,794 

44,977 

4.642 

32,153 

7,960 

16.157 

15,655 

8,3ii8 

5,061 

38,086 

7.007 

10,337 

295 

31,435 

13,195 

37,095 

46.740 

53,863 

25,166 

45,640 

24.086 

9,585 

7,778 

13,990 

3.663 

14,166 

2,398 

12,178 

1,174 

9,532 

2,400 

88 

3,787 

2,667 

14 

Total. 
23.228 
26.540 
19,725 
24,065 
762 
45,704 
50.144 
40,662 
34,150 
13,612 
45.473 
10,767 
41,94ft 
84,201 
79,831 
70,481 
J  7,569 
17983 
16,84» 
13.2661 
13,160 
3,964 
2,7GH 


499,694 


191,915 


699J64 


Superannuated  preachers,  163;  local  preachers,  4964. 

At  the  (ii-iieral  Conference  of  1866,  the  number  of  Conferenees  represented  was  2.S  ;  Alabama 
having  bfiMi  divided  into  Montgomery  and  Mobile.  Texas  into  Texas  and  Kio  Grande,  and  the 
Italiini  re  Conference  (part  of  the  rialtimore  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  being 
admitted. 

In  IrO?  Bi.'veral  "Christian  Union  fhurchcs"  of  Illinois  were  organized  into  the  Illinois  Conference. 

The  Church  has  suffered  a  large  dccrea-e  in  its  colored  membership.  A  number  of  Annual  Coo- 
fe!«iices  have  not  reported  their  itutisticsj and  DO  official  statement  of  the  aggregate  membership 
vail  tlierefuie  be  given. 


67 


The  session  of  the  Annual  Conferences  for  If  67 
began  in  Se|iteinber.  The  return  of  the  Ten- 
nessee Conference  show  ao  increase  nt'  3,400 
white  members  ;  decrease  of  colored  members, 
390.  iircacliers  received  on  trial.  21;  readmitted 
3;  located.  5;  increase  of  local  preachers  69. 

The  West  Virginia  Conference  reports  an  in- 
crease of  3,000  members,  and  7  preachers  re- 
ceived on  trial.  Forty-five  preachers  were 
stationed. 

The  new  Illinois  Conference  has  about  40 
preachers. 

In  18fi7,  there  were  30  Annual  Conferences  : 
Kentucky  Mississippi         South  Georgia 

]>ouisville  I.ouifiana  Florida 

Missouri  Montgomery      West  Virginia 

!St.  Louis  Mobile  Virginia 

Indian  Mission  Texas  North  Carolina 

Arkansas  East  Texas         South  Carolina 

Ijittle  RoO'C        Nortlnv. Texas   Baltimore 
Tennessee  Wnst  Texas        Colujnbia(Oreg.) 

Holston  Triuity  (Texas)  Pacific  (Califor.j 

Memphis  North  Georgia    Illinois 

Offirinl  Papers  were  in  1667  published  at 
Nashville,  Macon,  Richmond.  Memphis,  St. 
Louis,  New  Orleans,  Little  Rock,  Gaive'ion, 
San  Francisco,  and  independent  papers  at 
Baltimore,  Raleigh,  Jackson,  Catlesburg. 

The  Church  sustains  a  mission  in  China, 

The  nnmber  of  colleges  in  1860  was  12,  of  fe- 
nials  colleges,  high  schools  and  academics 
auout  bU. 

S.—  Methodist  Protestants. 

The  main  body  of  the  Methodist  Protestants 
comprising  the  conferences  in  the  Noithern 
.  States  held  in  1866,  a  "union  convention"  which 
was  to  effect  a  union  between  Non-Episcopal 
Methiidists.  The  name  of  the  new  body  was  to 
be  simply  the  "Methodist"  Church.  But  this 
plan  of  union  was  repudiated  by  all  save  the 
Methodist  Protestants  and  the  new  "Methodist" 
Church  is  sustantially  identical  with  the  former 
Methodist  Protestant  Conferences  of  the  North- 
ern States.  The  complete  statistical  report  made 
jn  1867  is  approximately,  not  fully,  as  follows  : 
Annual  Conferences,  ID  ;  Ministers,  625  ;  local 
prpachers,  430;  communicants,  50,000;  churches, 
480;  parsonages,  104,  property  value,  $1,150,000. 
Contributidn  for  missions  in  6  months  were  less 
than  $600. 

Thi  ir  Bdok  Concern  has  real  estate,  valued  at 
twelve  or  fifteen  thousand  dollars  only. 

The  number  of  Meihodist  Protestants  in  the 
Nprth  and  South  together  is  estimated  at  about 
100,000.  The  present  membership  in  the  Mary- 
land district  is  between  nine  and  ten  thousand  ; 
itinerant  ministers,  75;  local  preachers,  45;  and 
Sunday-schciol  children  about  10,000. 

The  'Methodist"  Church  publishes  a  weekly 
paper  at  Springfield,  Ohio,  and  the  Southern 
Methodist  Proiestiiuts  have  an  organ  at  Balti- 
more. In  both  these  cities  there  are  book  con- 
cerng. 

4. —  The  Wesltyan  Connection. 

At  the  "Union  Connection"  held  in  1S66  to 
effect  a  union  with  the  Methodist  Protestant 
and  other  Non-EpiscopalChurches,  the  following 
annual  Conferences  were  represented  :  Central 
Ohio,  New  York,  Iowa,  Indiana,  Miami,  Michi- 
gan, Rochester,  Alleghany,  and  Syracuse. 

The  membership  of  the  denomination  is  about 
25.1  00.  There  13  a  denomiaationul  Book-Concern 
lU,  Syracuse, 


5. —  Free  Methodist  Churches. 

This  Church,  in  Oct.  1860,  reported  thefolloW* 

ing  statistics  : 

AnnualConferences  Preach.  Memb.ChurchPr'ty. 

Genesee 31  2,025  $46,050 

Illinois 25  1  j-.TS  42,550 

Snsqiiehana 21  1,104  7,349 

Michigan 8  482  

Total 85  4,839  $95,949 

6, — Primitiue  Methodists. 

The  following  statistics  were  reported  in  1865  • 
42  Sabbath-schools;  3,018  teacher«  and  scholars  ; 
20  traveling  preachers  ;  14  parsonages,  and  36 
churches  valued  at  $43,200  (indebtedness  $3000). 
Members  about  2000,  mostly  in  Wisconsin  and 
Illinois. 

7. — Evangelical  Association. 

The  statistics  of  this  denomination,  for  1867, 
not  rtaching  us  in  time,  for  insertion  here,  we 
expect  to  give  on  auolh'.T  place. 

8, — African  Methodist  Episcopal  Churches. 

Of  these  there  aiv  two,  generally  called  the 
"African  Methodist  Fpiscopa)  Church"  and  the 
'"AfricanMi-thodistKpiscoiial  Zion  Church".  Both 
have  of  late  lar^-ely  increased  iu  membership  in 
the  Southern  States. 

The  former,  in  1867,  had  10  Conferences,  550 
preachers,  including  5  bi-hops,  but  exclusive  of 
1500  local  preaches,  and  about  200,000  mem- 
bers, nine-tentns  of  whom  live  in  the  southera 
Mates.  They  have  Churoli  property  to  the 
amount  ot  four  millions  ol  dollars,  a  Book  Con- 
cern in  Philadelphia,  a  weekly  newspaper,  and 
a  college  in  Oliio. 

The  second  organization  reports  more  than 
60,000  members,  with  nearly  3U0  traveling  and 
many  local  preachers. 

0. —  Methodist  Churches  of  Canada. 

The  Canadian  M.  E.  Ciiurch  suffers  a  small  de- 
crease. The  Magava  Confi-reuce,  at  its  late 
ses.-ion  reported  a  total  ot  ministers  and  mem- 
bers of  7,294,  showiiig  ai/  increase  of  62;  the  On- 
tario Conference  repoi".e<l  5,376,  a  decrease  of 
315  ;  and  tlie  Bay  of  Q  liute  Conference  6,287,  an 
increase  of  63.  From  tlie  foregoing  it  will  be 
seen  that  the  atrgregate  increase  in  the  first  and 
last  named  amounts  to  l;i5,  but  the  large  de- 
crease in  the  Ontario  Conference  over-balances 
the  increase  in  the  other  two  by  190. 

For  the  statistics  of  the  otlier  Methodist  bodies 
which  are  in  connection  with  ilie  Methodist 
Churches  of  Great  Britain,  see  the  latter. 

10. — Wesleyan  Connection  of  Great  Britain. 

I.  British  Conferenc  :         JIeiiib,,lDcr'se.Decr'3e. 

Great  Britain     JS6,07f)     5,887 

Ireland,  and  Irish  Missions. ,    li),657  178 

Foreign  Missions 61,794     1,898 

II.  French  Conference 1,890        191 

III.  Australasian  Conf 49,433     1,738 

IV.  Canad*  Conlerence 65,078     1,124 

V.  Conference     of   Ea^^tern 

British  America 14,873,  402 

Totals .539.795  10,838    580 

Last  year 529.537  580 

Ket  Increase 10,258  10,258 


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Connrxional  Tnstitutiont. 

1.  Home  Mission  anil  Continarnt  Fund.  In- 
BtiiutL-d  I75fi,  rciiiodtllt'il  1^5G.  Increase  £22,000. 
Has  assistitl  dvuinp  the  ytiir  in  building  65 
cliapKia,  costing  ilOU,y70,  and  accomodating 
UU,I47  persons. 

2.  Wesley  in  Chapel  Committee.  Instituted 
1818,  rciustitiited  1851.  K.-ceipts  (from  sub- 
scriptions and  collections)  £7,417  7s.  fid. 

Amount  expended  on  Wpsleyan  trust  property 
during  llie   year,   £295,594.     Amount  actually 

riilHed  and  paid,   £Z15,7G0 

To  whicli  add  grants  from  Connexional 

Funds \8,550 


Total £224,300 

An  increase  from  last  year '. . ..  £32,406 

3.  ChtlJrms  Fu'itl.     Instituted  1818.  . 

This  id  a  fund  desired  to  equalize  the  assess- 


ment on  the  elroultg  for  the  support  of  ministers 
childreu.  It  is  so  divided  tliat  for  a  certain 
number  of  members  in  the  circuit  ('JO  in  1856) 
the  circuit  shall  contribute  GO  guineas  a  year, 
the  allowance  for  each  child. 

4.  W'esUyan  Education  Committee.  Institnted 
1837,  has  charge  of  Suaday-schooU  and  Day- 
schools. 

5.  Auxiliary  Fuid.  The  Connexion  supports 
an  Auxiliary  Fund  for  the  supijort  of  worn  out 
preachers. 

6.  Publication  House,  Theological  Inalitutiav 
SfC.  There  are  under  the  charjie  of  the  CoofsT- 
ence.  a  Book-room  in  London,  a  theological 
institution  with  branches  at  Kichraoud,  Surrey, 
and  Didsbnry,  near  Manchester,  jschoils  at 
Kingswood  and  Wood  House  Grove,  u  Normal 
Institution  at  Winchester,  a  college  at  i^beffield, 
and  a  collegiate  institution  at  Xauuton. 


Wetltyans  Missions, 


^.2& 


France,  Switzerland  and  Corsica  (17  stations) 31 

Gerniiiiy  (ScircuitsJ 8 

lialy  (2  circuits) 3 

Spain  (Gibraltar  and  Malta) 2 

North  and  South  Ceylon  (22  circuits)  .. 31 

India  (21  stations  and  circuits)    34 

China  (6  stations)   ^ 

Cape  of  Good  Hope  (9  circuits) 8 

Graham  Town  (14  circuits) 19 

Incenstown  (12circuit3) 10 

Bechnaner  (9  stations) 9 

Natal  (10  stations) 15 

Siena  Loone,  Gambia,  and  Gold  Coast  (14  circuits) 23 

Antigua,  St.  Viucent,  ami  British  Guiana  (24  circuits)....  45 

Jamaica,  Honduras,  Bahama,  and  Hayti  (36  circuitsi 38 

Ireland  (24  circuits) 30 

Australasia  and  Polynesia  (164  circuits) 2P2 

British  America  (298  circuits) 381 


n 

1  876 

2,114 

10,195 

1,807 

200 

4,481 

20 

182 

5 

2114 

600 

2,003 

3.582 

9,3e5 

558 

3.625 

58 

225 

218 

r7oi 

2,703 

6,889 

6  907 

5,295 

20  530 

3.381 

1,511 

13,800 

1,088 

1,196 

52.110 

1,613 

1,286 

12.840 

7,923 

5,127 

26,713 

90,406 

11,193 

65,290 

19.479 

8.160 

45,429 

2.185 

1.748 

7,125 

57,18'i 

51,607 

251.5-26 

35,316 

13,957 

140,499 

11. — statistics  of  the  Primitive  Methodists,  1867. 

Increase. 


Traveling  Preachers 891 

Local  Preachers 13,865 

Connexial  Chapels 3,118 

Rented  Chapels  and  Rooms 3,192 

Sabbath-schools 2,984 

Sabbath-scholars 234,794 

Subbath-schuol  Teachers 41,191 


11 

138 
126 


7,318 
988 

This  does  not  include  these  in  the  United 
States,  but  includes  those  in  the  Home  Missions 
auU  the  Colonics. 

Primitive  Methodist  Missions. 

Missionaries.  Members. 

Home  stations 101  7,772 

Irrlanil,  Scotland,    and   Channel 

Island 13  818 

Ausiralin,  N.  Zealand,  and  Tas- 
mania    37  1.904 

Chuada 39  2.919 


Total. 


100  13,413 


12. — Statistics  of  the  Uniled  Methodist  Free 
Churches. 
Ministers,  288,  increase,  5:  local  preachers, 
3,388;  leaders,  4,420;  raemners,  67.478,  increase, 
1,721  ;  on  trial,  5,962,  increase.  717  ;  chapels, 
1,173,  increase  33  ;  other  preaching-rooms,  398; 
Sunday-Schools,  1,121,  increase,  46. 

,.   United  Mtthudiat  Free  Churches  Missions. 

' .     "a  »•      -3  2 

a        D  "         C  £ 

g      £  o      (►.•^ 

"      St:      ~  w 

a      .'2  rt      ^  ^ 

ti     S  ='      3  5 

si     "^^ 

Australi.nn  District  (10  circuits)..  12     612  1.431 

Jamaica  District  (7  circuits) 9  1,795      49S 

Eastern  Africa  and  China 4         6 

Siena  and  Leone 2,618     563 


To'al _ 25  5.030  2,771 

There  are  125  local  preachers  and  229  leader.* 
at  all  these  stations.  There  is  an  increase  of 
preachers  and  leaders  from  last  year,  but  a  de- 
cleasoiu  meiabcrs  and  Prebationers  of  441. 


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13.'— Methodist  Sew  Connexion.— Statistics. 

The  Statistics  of  this  body  show  a  total  of  3270 
members.  The  increase  in  England  is  f^5.  But 
there  has  been  a  decrease  la  Canada  of  3U0, 
making  a  net  decrease  of  215. 

Methodist  New  Connexion  Missions. 

=i2       ^3      g| 
go-        B^     w-g 

5  3  S  o< 

England 50  952  2,316 

Ireland  12  681  819 

Canada   215  8,110  5,190 

China 10  108  6 

Australia 12  147  240 

Total 299        9,998        8,571 

14. —  Wesleyan  Reform  Union  Statistics. 

Increase. 

Members 9,175  243 

Preachers 602 

Chapels... , 285 

Schools 182 

Scholars 17,691  704 

Teachers 782 

United  Brethren  in  Christ 


Conferences.  .c  oS 

SS 

3   O 

East  Pennsylyania 165 

Feunsyl  vania 119 

Alleghany 154 

♦Virginia , 95 

Parkersburg 91 

Western  Reserve 102 

Erie 93 

Canada 48 

Kansas  86 

Missouri 101 

Muskingum 77 

California 19 

Oregon 33 

White  River 125 

Indiana 125 

Miami 85 

Auglaize 154 

Sandusky, 183 

Scioto 219 

Michigan 119 

North  Michigan 111. 

St.  Joseph 158 

Upper  Wabash, 99 

Lower  Wabash 142 

Illinois no 

Central  Illinois 82 

Rock  River  94 

Wisconsin 57 

Fox  River 29 

ilinnesota 41 

North  Iowa....  ••  •■ 61 

Iowa 63 

East  Des  Moines 67 

West  Des  Moines......   : 65 

Ohio  German 62 


^^ 

■^(C 

4.915 

28 

4,477 

29 

4,380 

25 

3,500 

10 

2,905 

2fl 

2,520 

24 

1,629 

3? 

1,121 

n 

1,918 

34 

2,382 

2fi 

2,735 

20 

271 

9 

832 

6 

4.989 

29 

4,575 

21 

3.814 

25 

3,761 

24 

6,161 

45 

7.315 

37 

3,026 

21 

1,813 

28 

4,064 

47 

3,440 

26 

4,029 

32 

3.120 

26 

2,265 

29 

1,971 

29 

1,293 

15 

480 

12 

502 

15 

1,336 

20 

1,497 

15 

1,450 

25 

1,427 

20 

1,253 

19 

Tennessee 209         g 

Kentucky —  402         6 

Cascade 3  106         4 

Total  for  1867 3,444      97,982      837 

Total  for  1866 3,297      91,570      789 

Increase 148  6,413 

There  are  4,428  preaching  places,  2042  Sunday 
schools,  with  94,180  scholars  and  14,003  officers 
and  teachers.  The  collections  were  :  for  preach- 
ers salaries,  $213,369  27  ;  Missions,  $'26,999  47^; 
CoDferenceColIec«ion8,  $3,957  57;Sunday-8ch0ols, 
$25,054  04;  Bible  Course,  $4,416  55,  &c.  The 
total  of  all  collections  was  $418,720  11,  an  increase 
of  7,440  20  from  last  year. 

The  Church  supports  seven  colleges  and 
universities,  a  female  colliege  and  a  classical 
seminary.  It  has  a  printing  house  at  Dayton, 
Ohio,  where  is  published  an  official  organ,  a  Sun- 
day-school, and  a  missionary  paper.  The  bishops 
are  five  in  number,  and  are  elected  at  every 
session  of  the  General  Conference. 

The  following  are  the  mission  statixtics  of  the 
United  Brethren  :  During  the  year  ending  May, 
lb67,  three  missionaries  employed  in  the  foreign 
field,  eighty-one  en  the  frontier,  and  one  hundred 
and  twenty-seven  in  the  home  fields.  These  re- 
ceived from  the  missions  they  served,  as  salary, 
$41  903  55;  and  they  were  paid  from  the  mission- 
ary fund  $29,5f;6  69,  making  a  total  of  $71,470  24, 
and  an  average  salary  of  $338  72. 

Number  of  missions,  200;  appointments,  1,049» 
members,  13,787;  collected-  for  missions,  $3,220 
69;  meeting  houses,  130;  Sunday-schools,  368; 
teachers,  987;  scholars,  14,798. 

Moravians. 

TheMoravian Churches  embraces  two  American 
Provinces  (Northern  and  Southern),  a  British 
Province,  a  Contiaental  Province  embracing 
missions  in  Germany,  Switzerland,  France, 
Denmark,  Norway.  Sweden  and  Russia  and  the 
Foreign  Mission  Field. 

There  are  25  churches,  and  18  missions  in  the 
Northern  Province.  The  number  of  commuifi- 
cants  in  the  churches  is  4.^27,  and  the  total  of 
souls  (including  non-communicants  and  child- 
ren) is  7,550.  The  number  of  communicants  ia 
the  missions  is  893,  and  the  total  1,730.  Total 
of  communicants  in  the  Northern  Province, 
5,2r0,  and  of  souls,  9,280. 

An  English  and  a  German  Periodical  are 
published  by  the  Moravian  Bcok  Store  and 
Publication  Office  at  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

The  numberof  communicants  in  the  Southern 
Province  is  1,042,  so  that  the  whole  number  of 
communicants  in  the  two  Provinces  is  6,262,  and 
the  whole  number  of  souls,  11,033.  The  whole 
number  of  ministers  In  active  service,  in  both 
Provinces,  is  64.  Number  of  boarding  schools, 
6;  of  pupils,  875.  In  the  Theological  Seminary 
there  are  3  stud'ents  ;  in  the  college,  30. 

Thero  are  71  communicants  and  172  souls  ander 
the  care  of  the  Church  in  the  Indian*  missions. 
The  whole  number  of  Sunday-school  scholars  in 
the  Northern  Province,  including  the  Indian 
missions,  is  4,836.  The  statistic!  of  the  other 
provinces  are  as  follows  ; 

♦Estimated. 


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Conmun.  Total 
Continental  Province  (I8fl5)  5,1U4  7,1-^u 
British  "  (1865)  3.239  5.402 

Americ.  Northern  and  Soutfiern,  6,262        11.033 
In  the  Fureiirn  Missions  there  are  70,235  souU 
in  coDQectioD  with  the  uliiucb. 

Congregationalists. 

1,     America, 


States,  ct«. 


m 


Maine 243      19.237  21.215 

Kew  Hampshire lf-3      18,513  22,5(^5 

Verraont 191       17.149  17,008 

Massachusetts 463      74.955  87,107 

Khode  Island 23         3.414  4,390 

Connecticut 286      45,555  20,992 

Kew  York 225      22,004  23.924 

NewJersey 8         1,3.S2  1,492 

Pennsylvania 60        3,582  1,490 

Delaware     1  14         

Maryland 1              48  60 

District  of  Oolurabia 1            174  ^— 

North  Carolina 1  20         

Ohio :I65      13,204  14.932 

ln.ilana 24            788  1,151 

Illinois 222       15.297  17,9)1 

Michit-'an 150        8,969  10  201 

Wisconsin 1.^8        9.868  13.110 

Minnesota 58        2.203  2,410 

Iowa 166        7,248  9,157 

Missouri 29            844  1,747 

Tennessee 1             70  80 

Louisiana 1              28  —^ 

Nebraslia 10            190  195 

Kansas 33           891  1,302 

Colorado    4             75  J 50 

WashiDKton    Terpitory....     1             15  50 

Utah  Territory 1  18         

Orcpon   8            320  530 

Califnrnia 32        1,428  4,025 

i'oreign  Missionaries —         

Tbtals,U.  S 2,780    267,353  286,275 

Canada 96        4,311  5,907 

Kova  Scotia,  etc,... 13           424  402 

New  Brunswick 6           372  429 

Jamaica &           415  320 

Totals,  Amerlcafl 2,900    272,975  293.333 

The  followin);  table  exhibits  the  prowth  of  the 
Congregational i>te  in  Churches,  Ministers.  Mem- 
bers, and  Sunday-school  scholar?  ia  the  last  10 
years. 

Veur.  Churches.  Ministers.  Members.  Sund.Sch'l 

Scliolais 

1857  2,479          1.795          232,549  128.772 

1858  2.648           1.810          2:i9  5H6  162  815 

1859  2.678          1. 9)17          257.6:^4  206.441 

1860  2.7.34  1,953  260.389  250.690 
IWW  2.756  1,9116  250.119  246..'.47 
|8fta  2.774  1,980  261.474  255,257 
l8M'  2.8a«  1,90«  264.313  260.492 
)h64  2,^65  1  968  268,015  286.798 
|86»  2,840  1,094  1:69, 1)62  279  O.M> 
|bG6          2,900          2,015          272,975  293,333 


The  (o(al  number  of  ministers  in  the  United 
States,  in  the  pastoral  work  anil  tro'  in  it, 's  2919. 
Ihe  number  in  the  British  i'rovinces  (Canada, 
Kova  Scotia,  New  Brunswick.  Jamaica,  etc.)  ia 
90.  making  a  total  for  America  of  30.009.  The 
number  of  admission  by  profession  in  llie  United 
States  is  11,249.  the  total  for  America,  11,485. 

Great  Britain  and  Colonies, 

County  Associat.,       Church.    Minist, 
or  Unions. 

England 43  1.923  1,829 

Wales 16  788  405 

Scotland 8  105  105 

Ireland I  27  25 

Colonies 8  278  317 

Channel  Islands —  13  — 

Foreign  lands —  —  202 

Tola! 76  3,135  2,782 

The  Congrepatiooalists  have  6  theological 
seminaries,  with  28  professors  and  258  siuilenta. 
There  are  17  colleges  and  20  theological  coUegca 
etc..  in  tlie  British  Islands  and  Colo  its.  They 
have  no  official  organ,  but  several  periuclicaland 
weekly  papers  are  published,  by  Private  Con- 
gregational enterprise. 

Reformed  Dutch  Church. 


Classes. 


s 
i 

Albany 2,007  1,890 

Arcot 341  

Bergen 1.177  l,e82 

South  Bergen 2,578  2,5J3 

Cayuga (-83  724 

Geneva I,fi2l  1,006 

Greene 1,488  957 

Holland 2,028  5b5 

Hudson 1.314  965 

Illinois 1,128  1,(81 

Kingston 1.712  J,.-i87 

North  Long  I  land.. 2,179  2,0J5 

Sojth  Lonit  Island.. 3,495  3,(il2 

Michigan   431  680 

Moumouih 923  522 

New  Brunswick....  1861  1.291 

New  York 4,419  4,002 

South  New  York...  .2, 30(t  2,175 

Orange 2  966  2,074 

Paramus 2  376  1,3'JO 

Passaic 1,339  946 

iMiiladelnhia 2  650  2,625 

Poughkeepsie 2.  PS  1,255 

Karitan 2418  2,187 

Kensalaer 1 .609  1 .228 

Saratoga 1,412  970 

Schenetady 2,067  1,645 

Schoharie 1028  539 

Ulster l,ti|f)  1,051 

Westchester 1,468  963 

Wisconsin ?.. 1.373  617 

Total 57,846  46,411 


B  S 

»§ 

$17.329  11 

2.282  10 
3.708  98 

14,617  29 
4,016  12 

3  6:^6  97 
2.248  68 
6.419  13 

3.180  45 
1.341  31) 

2.283  04 

5.671  43 
29,113  66 

69.'  48 
909  48 

6.672  1 1 
98.813  45 
16,0.^9  00 

5.081  37 
4,758  64 
1,K65  79 
5,6i>5«6 

7.181  53 

4  617  10 
4.'M'J5.23 
2.224  60 
2,826  0(j 

917  14 
5,548  37 
9,391  94 
3.705  75 


<377,209  H> 


7i 


Domestse  Missions. 

The  receipts  of  the  Board  of  Dom'  stic  Missions 
for  the  last  year  were  $25,208  2S.  They  have 
extended  their  care  to  8ti  churches  and  stations 
With  4213  families  and  5b39  communicants,  96 
fcfunday-schools,  and  5652  scholars.  The  numher 
or  domestic  missionaries  and  missionary  pastors 
18  76. 

Foreign  Missions. 

The  receipts  of  the  Boards  of  Foreign  Missions 
were  $!ly.53(l89. 

Missions  at  Amoy,  China:  Missionaries  and 
hssistants,  6:  members.  626;  contributions,  $fi379. 

Mission  at  Arcot,  India;  Missionaries  and 
assistants,  14.  Members  in  (Congregations  1525; 
communicants,  330  ;  scholars  in  vernacular 
schools,  312  boys,  55  girls. 

A  mission  has  been  estaWished  in  Japan,  in 
which  6  missionaries  and  assistant  missionaries 
•reengaged. 

German  Reformed  Church. 

The  follf.wing  are  the  General  St'riistics  of  the 
German  Reformed  Church  in  18(16  as  given  by 
the  "Almanac  of  the  Reformed  Church  for  1868." 

1  General  Synod.  3  Subordinate  Synods,  29 
Classes.  485  Ministers,  1.183  Congregations. 
1(13.925  Members,  70.432  Unconfirmed  Members, 
11,115  Baptisms.  6,845  Confirmations.  2  421  Re- 
ceived by  Certificate.  91.547  Communicants,  196 
Excommunicated,  1,244  i)i,<missed,  4,207  Deatiis, 
939  Sunday-schools.  $60,977  46  Benevolent  Con- 
tributi'  n<. 

The  statistics  of  the  three  Synods,  composing 
the  Geni-ral  Synod,  are  given  as  follows  in  the 
Geiman  Almanac  of  the  German  Reformed 
Church  for  18t)8. 

Preachers.  Congreg.  Commnn, 

Eastern  Sybod 275  703  67.635 

Ohio  Synod  130  300  17,444 

Germ.  North  W.  Syn...  83  162  7,726 

Total 488         1,165  82.815 

The  Church  has  iix  cnileges,  at  Lancaster, 
Mrtunt  Pleasant.  Meyerstown,  and  Mercersburg, 
Pennisylvania,  TitTio,  Ohio,  and  Newton.  North 
Carolina;  one  colle;;e  instil "te,  at  Reimersburg, 
Pennsylvania;  2  theological  SemiF)ariHS  at 
Mercersliur.g,  Pennsylvania,  and  Tiffin,  Ohio  and 
a  Mission  House,  at  Howard  Grove,  nearSlieboy- 
gan.  Wisconsin. 

The  B  ard  of  Hntne  Missioiis  In  1867  had  70 
stations  under  their  care.  Ovpr  $11,000  were 
contributed  to  this  object,  and  upwardsof$i2000 
for  Church  Extension. 

The  Church  has  5  Eng'ish  papers,  (1  quarter- 
ly. 2  monthlies,  2  weeklies),  and  6  German  (I 
quarterly,  2  monthlies,  1  semimoirthly,  2  week- 
lies). 

Presbyterians. 

I. — OldScltool  Presbyterian.  Church: 
Synods.  Ministers.  Commnn, 

Alhany 96  10.448 

Alleuhaoy OT  12  846 

Baltimore 105  11.445 

Buffalo 96  5.205 

Chicago 104  7,473 

Cincinnati 105  11.829 

Illinois HO  9.3fil 

Indiana 68  6,939 


Towa 55  3,<)81 

Kansas 22  1,1 18 

Kentucky 83  'J.m 

Mississippi 5  173 

Missouri ; 82  6,936 

Nashville ;..,...,    8  482 

New  Jfrsey 245  26  948 

Netr  York '. ..224  22,663 

North  Carolina 7  1,970 

Northern  India 22  352 

Northern  Indiana 60  6,(>85 

Ohio.. 100  11,453 

aciflc : 42  1.696 

Philadelphia 245  20,816 

Pittsburg ..117  19  292 

St.  I'aul ., .13  1.617 

Sandusky 29  3,677 

Southern  Iowa 57  4.271 

Wheelini; .....109  16.980 

Wisconsin 41  2,861 

Total 2,302  247,350 


There  are  no  reports  from  the  Synods  of  Ala- 
bama, Arkansas.  Geirgia,  Memphis,  South  Caro- 
lina, Texas,  and  Virginia. 

Synods  in  connection  with  the  G«neral  As- 
sembly. 54  ;  Presbytcrii's,  176  ;  Ministers.  2,302; 
Churches,  6,622;  total  of  baptisms,  15  295.  Num- 
ber of  persons  in  tlie  Sunday-schools,  195,623. 
Amount  contributed  for  the  boards,  $27,473; 
whole  amount  of  contributions,  $3,731,164. 

Board  of  Domestic  Missions,  Missionaries  ia 
service,  626;  members  of  churches,  27,492  ;  Sun- 
day-schools 481,  with  4269  teachers  and  30,644 
scholars.  Baptisms  331 1,  Receipts,  $96,977  81, 
total  resources,  $120,622  09. 

Foreign  Missions.  The  Board  of  Foreign 
Mission  report  that  they  have  missions  among 
the  Jews  and  the  Indian  tribes,  in  this  country, 
the  Chinese  of  California,  the  Roman  CaWio- 
lics  in  Brazil  and  the  United  States  of  Columbia, 
in  China.  Japan,  Siam,  Cacdia,  Liberia,  Corisco 
(Africa).  Italy,  France,  and  Belgium.  Mission- 
aries, 70;  native  Ministers,  20;  assistajits,  174; 
churches  44;  stations,  etc.,  60;  children  in 
schools,  o'\^er  7000  ;  receipts,  $244,667  80. 

Board  of  Publications,  The  Board  of  p,ablfca- 
tion  have  issued  500.400  copies  of  publications 
during  the  year,  and  13,208.188  sitice  its  organi- 
sation. It  has  sold  during  the  year  226,623 
volumes  and  374,700  pages  of  tracts  and  ha- 
piinted  14,697  volumes  and  179,54  pages.  Res 
ceipts  $145,701  52. 

Disabled  Ministers  Fund.  Receipts,  $27,740  28. 

Committee  on  Freedmen.  Appropriallons 
$40,160  97,  During  the  year  this  committee 
have  had  in  commission  104  Missionaries,  of 
whom  47  were  colored. 

Theological  Seminaries.  The  theological 
Seminaries  under  the  care  of  this  Church  are 
four  in  number. 

Board  of  Education.  Receipts,  $4,720  41- 
Candidates  passing  their  studies,  261. 

Board  of  Church  Extension.  Receipts.  $37,623 
30.     Available  means  for  the  year,  $96,624  51. 


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2. — ytte  School  Prtghytrrian  Church. 
ffyDods.  Ministers. Cocamuoic'ts. 

Albany 80  8,337 

Uliea 81  7.573 

Onondaga 88  8,919 

Ceneva 101  »,657 

8u?queliaDna 38  3,591 

Genesee 138  13,919 

Nctv  Vork  and  K.  Jersey 284  32,172 

Pennsvl  vania 113  16,342 

West  Pennsylvania 30  3,709 

Michigan 116  10,472 

Western  Reserve 96  6,8S7 

Ohio 50  4,569 

Cincinnati 58  3  844 

Wabash 36  3,280 

Indiana 42  4,143 

Illinois 87  5.764 

Peoria 103  6,556 

Wisconsin 44  1,640 

Iowa 90  2,733 

MiBuesota 34  1,668 

Missouri 41  1,506 

Tennessee 20  2.858 

Alia  California 29  1,210 

23  Synods 1,870  161,538 

Number  of  Presbyteries,  100;  of  Churches, 
1560;  ot  Baptisms,  9,175;  of  persons  in  Sunday- 
schools,  163,242. 

Foreign  jUi«6»on».  Conti  ibutions,  $110,349. 
The  Missions  are  located  in  Western  Africa,  South 
Africa,  Turkey,  Syria,  etc.,  Southern  and  East- 
ern Asia,  Pacific  Islands,  and  amonp  t!ie  North 
American  Indians.  The  number  of  Missionaries 
is  43. 

Home  Missious.  Receipts,  $128,500  ;  Mission- 
aries, 419;  Conversions  2500;  Additions,  3000. 

Church  Erection  Fund.  Contributions,  $18,762 
78;  total  receipts,  $24,298  ;  Grants,  $20  700. 

Publication  Committee.  Sales,  $45,190  73  ; 
Books  and  Catalogues.  357;  Donations  received, 
$8,128  4!»;  value  of  books  given  away,  $5500  95. 

Edwation  Committee,  Receipts,  $22,270  42; 
Students  assisted.  145. 

Hreshyterian  House.    Receipts,  $22,462.49. 

Ministerial  Rrtirf  Fund.  Receipts,  $9647  09; 
persons  assisted,  137. 

3, —  United  Preabytenan  Church. 


Synods. 


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NcwTork Tl  13.546  8,819 

»8t  Svnod  ofthe  West 72  11.883  4,353 

Pittsburgh 53  12.746  3.581 

«hio 33  6.442  1,853 

2d  of  the  West 52  7,641  3,661 

Illinois 53  6,350  3,748 

Iowa 37  4,469  1.729 

Missionary  Presbyteries. . .  9  412  130 

Total 380        63,439      27,894 

Total  number  of  Presbyteries  in  1867,  54; 
Missionary  Presbyteries,  3;  Congregations.  736; 
Foreign  Ifissionaries  and  teachers,  26;  Home 
Missionarlen,  125;  Baptisms,  411 1;  Contributions 
to  Church  Fundi,  $108, 2d5;  total  Contributions, 
$631,888;  average  per  member,  $10. 


Foreign  Missions.  Contributions,  $45.7?(T, 
Receipts  including  balance  ai  the  beginning  of 
theyear,  $72,8li9  75;  expended  $68,252  78.  The 
missions  are  in  Trinidac],  Syria,  India,  Egypt, 
China,  and  Italy. 

Contributed  for  Home  Missions,  $30,548. 

Bmrd  of  Pitblicalton.     Sales,  $23  740, 

Board  of  Education.  Contributions,  $32tO; 
Appropriations,  5050  00;  PeriOus  assisted,  40. 

Hoard  of  Church  Extension.  CoDtribotions, 
$9,389. 

iMissiona  to  the  Freedmen.  Contribations, 
$14,252;  Total  resources.  $22,241  71. 

4. — Presbyterian  Church,  Southern. 

The  Central  Preshyterian,  of  Richmoud,  gives 
from  the  "MiDUtes  of  the  General  Assembly  for 
1667,"  the  follo\Ving  siatistical  exhibit  of  tb» 
Southern  Presbyterian  Church. 

General  View  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  during 
the  year  ending  November,  1866. 

Synods  1^ 

Presbyteries 46 

Licentiates 41 

Candidates  for  the  Minrstry 40 

Ministers • 82i* 

Churches 1.290 

Membei-s  added  on  examination 4,674 

Members  ad>ied  on  certificate 2,094 

Total  number  of  communicants  reported.  66,62^ 

Adults  baptized 1-637 

Infants  baptized 1,0?^ 

Children   in   Sabbath-schools  and    Bible 

Classes 21.094 

Domestic  Missions $14,226 

Foreign  Missions 4,089 

Sustemation ...     8,519 

Education 9.058 

Publication 8.633 

Commissioners  and  Contingent  Fund. . . .     6.982 

Congregational  purposes 334,165 

Miscellaneous 23,610 

"There  are."  says  the  Central  Presbyterian, 
"340  churches,  Includingfour  whole  presbyteries 
from  which  no  report  of  members  is  niade.  Jf 
all  the  churches  had  been  reported  there  is  no 
doubt  that  our  membership  would  have  been 
found  to  exceed  70,000,  and  probably  to  approach 
near  80,000. 

These  are  the  first  minutes  since  1868,  and  al- 
so since  the  union  with  the  United  Synod  ia 
1864,  which  contain  statistics,  compiled  from 
the  Presbyterian  reports. 

i.— Reformed  Presbyterian  Church,  Old  Side. 

This  Church  is  compo.'»ed  of  8  Presbyteries,  66 
ministers,  and  91  congregations,  with  a  member- 
ship of  8.324.  During  the  year,  530  members  had 
been  received  on  profession  of  their  faith,  and  ia 
all  ways  877,  the  net  pain  being  406.  The  con- 
gregations raised— for  Foreign  Missions,  9,107  35, 
for  Home  ^fissioos.  $2,478  02:  for  the  Freedmen, 
$5, 116  79;  for  Seminary  endowment.  $2,548  74 
for  Church  erection,  $23,193  02:  for  Pastors 
salaries.  $47,163  49;  for  miscellaneous  jjiirposes, 
$33,336  42;  making  a  total  of  $123  097  34.  or  au 
average  of  between  fifteen  and  sixteen  dolars  pef 
member.  It  has  a  Theological  Seminary  with  16 
Students  and  aa  Endowment  Fund  of  $23,113  tl^ 


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6, — Cumberland  Presbyterian  Churek. 
This  Church  had.  in  1860,  927  ministers,  1188 
churches  and  84, •j4i)  communicants.  The  number 
ol  Presbyteries  was  96.  There  are  official  boards 
on  publications,  rais^ions  and  other  objects. 
Number  of  Educational  publications,  24,  weekly 
papers  were  published,  sn  1867,  at  Waynesburg, 
Pa-,  Alton,  111.,  and  Nashville,  Teon. 
7. — Other  Presbyterian  Churchea  iM  the  United 
Stales. 

MiDist.Comm. Collect* 
Associate Refor   «dSynod  of  New 

York ^16     1,631    $7,102 

Assoc.  Ref.  Pres.  Ch.  Soutij..  68 

Assoc.  Synod  of  N.  Amer 11       778         190 

Kef.  Presb.  Church,  Synod 63    5,821      9,484 

8. — Presbyterian  Churches  in  Great  Britain, 
The  Church,  of  Scotland,  Has  16  Synods,  84 
Presbyteries,  and  1243  congregations.  The  con- 
tributions at  the  last 'session  of  the  General 
Assembly,  from  838  congregations,  the  others 
not  having  reported,  wei-e: 

For  Home  Missions £69.655    Ss  6A 

Educational  purposes 23,850  16 

Endowments 27,000 

Foreign  purposes -, 17,000  17    3 


Total £136,516  18a  5d 

The  Free  Church  of  Scotland  has  16  synods,  71 
Presbyteries.  861  churclies,  3  theological  schools, 
with  226  students.  Funds  received  in  1866 — 7. 

BuildingFund £  48,735 

Susteatation  Fund 132.337 

C.ingregational  Fund 12,024 

Education ,    20,358 

College 8,797 

Ml  ssiona,  home  and  foreign 36,8 1 6 

Total $369,104 

A  decrease  of  £14,4€7  from  previous  year. 

Rfformed  Presbyterian  Synod  (Cameronians), 
IS  Presbyteries,  45  Churches,  2  professors  in 
divinity,  41  Ministers, 

United  Presbyterian  Church.  31  Presbyteries, 
an  England  and  Scotland,  584  Ministers,  596 
Churches.  Also  a  theological  hall,  with  4  Pro- 
fessors. 

Presbyterian  Seceders.  4  Presbyteries,  25  Con- 
gregations. 

Presbyterian  Church  in  England.  7  Presby- 
teries, 105  Churches.  1  theologicaJ  college,  with 
3  Professors.  There  are  also  15  Presbyterian 
Churches  in  England  formed  into  3  Presbyteries 
in  connection  with  the  Church  of  Scotland. 

Presbyterian  Church  m  Ireland.  50  Ministers 
aO  Churches. 

Q.— Presbyterian*  in  Australasia. 

The  following  are  the  Presbyterian  statistics 
of  Australasia,  as  far  as  they  can  be  obtained. 

New  South  Wales Members  18  150 

Amount  received  from  State  Funds £3,527 

quee.neland.  Free  Presbyterians,  7  churches 
1650  sittings.  ' 

United  Pregbyterian  Church  of  Sootland  1 
Church,  200  sittings. 

Bouth  Australia.  Free  Church 

rT„»"//p°"n-.- 4,137  Members. 

united  PresJbytenana.... 1,572       •« 


Victoria.  Presb.  Churcli  of  Vict.  5,052  Memfeisra. 

Church  of  Scotland .16,917         " 

Free  Church  of  Scotland  and  Free 

Presbyterians 21,219         " 

United  Presbyterians ,.,16,734         •• 

Other  Presbyterians 7,181         •* 


Latherana, 

\,— America, 

Statistical   View  of  the  Evangelical  Lutherecn 
Church  in  North  America. 

Synods  connected  with  th«  General  Synod  of 
the  United  States. 


6?oo48L 


L  Synod  of  New  York 16  16  2,20a 

2.  Hartwick  Synod,  (N,  Y.) 27  31  4,S(l(l 

3.  Franckean  Synod,  (N.  Y.) 20  29  2i5<l(> 

5.  Synod  of  New  Jersey S  10  I^5<10 

5.  Synod  of  East  Pennsylvania  ..56  82  giooo 

6.  Susquehanna  Synod  (Penn. J..  14  28  sj.'iOO 

7.  Synod  of  West  Pennsylvania.. 50  93  12i52(» 

8.  Synod  of  Central  Penn 34  78  6  8li« 

9.  Alleghany  Synod,  (Penn.) 45  96  6  60rt 

10.  Synod  of  Maryland 35  35  8,307 

11.  Melanchthon  Synod,  (Md.) 18  46  4  300 

12.  Synod  of  Texas 10  23  2!8(itl 

13.  East  Ohio  Synod 40  60  3  7110 

14.  Wittenberg  Synod,  (Ohio).... 37  57  3,^{)g 

15.  Miami  Synod,  (Ohio) 35  44  i'500 

16.  Synod  of  North.  Indiana 28  05  3'(i() 

17.  Olive  Branch  Synod,  (Ind.)..  22  42  j'80!» 

18.  Synod  of  Northern  Illinois 23  55  2i()o't 

19.  Synod  of  Southern  Illinois 19  16  I,"2l() 

20.  Synod  of  Central  Illinois 12  J7  200  1 

21.  Synod  of  Iowa 22  23  I/20U 

570  944  86,933 
Synods  0/  the  "General  CounciU' 

1.  New  York  Ministerium,  etc.  49  47  12  009 

2.  Synod  of  Penn.  etc 125  300  5o'm» 

3.  PiMsbui-K  Synod,  (P-onn.). .  .  67  300  8  SOU 

4.  English  Dist-  Synod  of  Joint 

SynodofOhio 34  53  yog,, 

5.  English  Synod  of  Ohio H  26  iVfiii 

6.  Synod  of  Illinois,  etc 32  40  4'<)ii(i 

7.  Synod  of  \Vi3consiB 50  90  Iljlliiu 

».  bynod  of  Michigan 14  35  3  (Ki;-) 

in  1^°°^  "Iw.""^ 52  75  r',m., 

10.  Synod  of  Minnesota 19  35  ^  5|,j 

11.  Scandinavian  Augustana  "' 

12   l/nT^'^'VV".,- *"  1^0  JO-OOf 

1^  bynod  of  Canada....,.,...^,  24  64  1.500 

258  1010  119,10(1 
Synods  connected  with  the  (Southern)  Geuerai 
Synod  of  North  America. 

1.  Synod  of  Virginia 30    gj  3200 

2.  Synod  ofSouth.WestVirginii.'21  40  2.'l79 
d.  Synod  of  North  Carolina 18  34  3710 

4.  Synod  of  South  Carolina 33  44  4'8ir- 

5.  Synod  of  Georgia 6  10  ]',-m 

6.  Holaton  Synud,  (Tcna.) 12  25  g^Oua 


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227 

30.500 

3U4 

37  (lOO 

2(t0 

20,000 

«5 

5,SliO 

25 

2,000 

20 

2.210 

40 

5,000 

10 

1,800 

11 

2,000 

Si/nodt,  not  connected  with,    any  General  Synods 
or  lieneral  Council, 

1.  Joint  Synod  of  Ohio,  etc....  109 

2.  Joint  Synod  of  Missouri,  etc250 

3.  Norwegian  Syuoc'.,  Wis.,  etc.  50 

4.  '^enne^.>iec  Synod 32 

5.  Eilson's  Synod 9 

6.  Union  Svnod.  (Ind.) 15 

7.  Buinilo  .-ynod,  (.V.  V.) 30 

8.  German  Synod  of  X.  Y.,  etc.   10 

9.  Synod  of  Mississippi 7 

10.  Missionary    Synod     of    the 

West 11      30         700 

523    944  109,010 
GrandTotal— 49  Synods,  1,750  Ministers,  3,112 
Congregations,  332,155  Communicants. 

Under  the  Piitronage  of  the  Lutheran  Church 
are  14  literary  and  theolojjical  schools,  19 
colleges,  11  academies,  9  female  seminaries,  and 
J5  elemosynary  institutions.  Other  benevolent 
institutions  are: 

The  Parent  Education  Society organized  1837 

Foreign  Missionary  Society  .....  "         1837 

Home  Missionary  Society *'         1845 

Church  K.\te"8ion  Socie'y "         1853 

Publication  Society ,  "        1851 

Historical  Society "        1845 

Pastors  Fund 

Tlie  Lutheran  Periodicals  are  11  English  (4 
weekly,  2  ieinimonthly.  4  monthly,  and  1 
quarterly),  10  German  (4  semi-mothly,  3  month- 
ly, and  2  not  defined),  and  Swedish  and  Nor- 
wegian (1  weekly,  2  semi-monthlr.  and  3 
monthly.) 

2.  Europe. 

1.  Germany. — In  Prussia  and  a  number  of 
other  States  the  Lutheran  and  the  Reformed 
churches  have  been  fused  into  the  "United 
Evangelical  Cliurch".  This  new  denomination 
is  viewed  l)y  surae  as  an  entirely  new  denomina- 
tion, absorbing  Lutheran  and  Reformed  Church- 
es, while  others  consider  it  merely  as  a  confed- 
eration, which  leaves  the  Lutheran  or  Reformed 
character  of  the  several  congregations  unim- 
paired. By  far  the  larger  portion  of  the  United 
EvaTgelical  Church  were  formerly  Lutherans, 
and  many  of  these  desire  the  repeal  of  the  union 
and  the  reconstruction  of  a  strictly  Lutheran 
church.  In  those  states  where  the  United  Evan- 
gelical Church  legally  exists,  it  is  impossible 
to  ascertain  the  number  of  the  persons  who  still 
regard  themselves  as  Lutherans.  We  give,  on 
Dial  account,  for  the  several  German  States,  the 
ht:iii,-.iics  of  the  Lutheran,  Reformed,  and  United 
Evangeliial  churches  together. 

A  number  of  the  German  State  Churches 
are  clearly,  more  or  less,  under  the  influence  of 
the  Liberal  (•'  Rationalistic  ")  party,  which  lays 
no  claim  to  the  name  or  character  of  a  distinctly 
.Lutheran,  Refi>rmed,  or  United  Evangelical 
Church,  and  considers  itself  bound  to  no  stand- 
ard of  faith.  These  olmrches,  on  the  whole, 
would  sympathiie  mostwith  iheUnitarianChurch 
in  the  United  States.  The  Literal  party  is  at  pre- 
sent in  the  ascendancy  in  Badeu,  Hesse-D.irm- 
jadt,  Hamburg.  Saxe-Weimar,  Saxe-Coburg- 
G.itha.  Saxe-M<-inIngen,  and  is  largely  repre- 
sented in  a  number  of  other  states. 

From  all  these  reasons,  it  is  extremely  diflB- 
cnlt  even  to  estimate  the  number  ot  Lutherans 
in  Germany. 

As  far  as  they  can  be  .ascertained,  the 'sta- 
tisUca  of  the  Lutheran,   Baf  ormed,  aad  Uuited 


Evangelical  churches  of  Germany  are  as  fbl* 
lows  : 

Prutxia  Proper  (that  is,  without  the  state* 
annexed  in  ISfib),  had  a  "Prott-stant"  or  "Evan- 
gelical" p.pulation  of  11,592,451.  Of  the«e. 
about  40,001)  are  "  Independent  Lutherans," 
who  have  refused  to  be  incorporated  with  the 
United  Evangelical  Church,  aud  have  obtained 
permission  to  form  an  independent  oigauiaa- 
tion.  There  is  a  so  a  considerable  number  of 
"  Reformed  "  congregations  which  have  not 
joined  the  Union,  but  the  independent  Luther- 
ans and  Reformed  count  together  a  population, 
less  than  lOn, 000  souls,  leaving  all  the  remain-' 
der  nominally  connected  with  the  "United 
Evangelical  Church."  The  numerical  propor* 
tion  of  the  Lutherans  and  the  Reformed  element 
in  the  United  Evangelical  (Jliurc'a,  may  be  seen 
from  the  fact  that  in  181i',  a  year  before  the 
union,  there  were  5,873,146  Lutherans,  and  only 
391,114  Reformed. 

The  ecclesiastical  statistics  of  the  countries 
annexed,  in  18t)6,  to  Prussia,  were  as  follows  ; 

iianower— Total  population,  1,923,492  ;  Luther- 
ans 1,581  767,  Reformed  98,010. 

Hesse  Crissel — Total  population,  745,063  ;  Pro- 
testants about  618,000.  Most  of  the  Lutherans 
iud  Reformed  now  belong  to  the  United  Evan- 
gelical Chuich.  Before  the  iiitroduclion  of  the 
Union,  the  number  of  Lutherans  was  144,000. 

iVa.-sau— Total  population,  ,.408,311  ;  Uuited 
Evangelical  241,354. 

Fr'i)il./ort— Total  population,  91,074  ;  Luther- 
ans about  48,000,  Evangelical  1,600,  German 
Beforiajd  j,000,  Calvinists  700. 

Sc/i.'dsiiw^-rtotoei-,— Total  population, gW, 392; 
nearly  all   LuUierans. 

The  ecclesiastical  statistics  of  the  other 
German  States  are  as  follows  (the  total  popul*- 
tion,  if  not  otherwise  stated,  being  that  given 
in  the  official  census  of  1804)  : 

Anlialt—Toti\  population,  193,046  ;  nearly  all 
United  Evangelical  ;  before  the  Union  a  majori- 
ty was  Reformed. 

fia(i««— Total  population,  1,429,199;  United 
Evangelical  Church  472,258. 

Bavaria — Total  population.  4,774,454  ;  Protest- 
ant population  about  1,3(10.000,  of  whom  980.000 
are  Lutherans,  5,000  Reformed,  and  316,000  Uni- 
ted Evangelicals. 

BremtH— Total  population,  104,091 ;  Luther- 
ans 50,000,  Reformed  45.000. 

Brunswic/i— Tola]  population,  293.388;  Lur 
therans  285,934,  Reformed  1.676. 

Hamlfurg— Tot &l  population,  in  1866,  about 
251,000  ;  about  220,000  Lutherans,  7.000 
Reformed. 

HessC' Darmstadt— Tota\  population,  816,902; 
Protestants  568.559.  Before  the  union  there 
were  about  40o.OO0J-utherans  and  170,600  Re- 
formed Most  of  both  now  belong  to  the  United 
Evangelical  Church. 

Lippe-DftmolU — Total  population,  111,336; 
Lutherans  8,000  ;  Reformed  100.000. 

Lubeck—T(,t%\  population,  in  1862,  50,614  ;  Lu- 
therans 49,000,  Reformed  500. 

M  ecklenburg-Hchwerni Total      population, 

552,612  :  Lutherans  448.457,  Reformed  184. 

Mecklenburg-Slrelitz Total    population,   in 

186r,  99.060  ;  almost  all  Lutherans. 

Otdetihurg l'o;al  population,  314.416;  Lu- 
therans 198.122,  Reformed  1,196,  United  Evan- 
gelical 26.029. 

Riuss-areitz—Totai  population,  43,924  ;  neair* 
.  ly  all  Luthenms. 


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Revss-Srkleiz — Total     population,     88,472  ; 
nearly  ail  Lutherans. 

Haxouy—VoivA  poi>ulation,  2,343,994  ;  Reform- 
ed 5.  i3'i. 

S.ixe-  W,  Jwfr— Totiil  population,  280,201  ;  Pro- 
te-itauts  2r>9,0l)7,  of  whum  about  260,l;UU  are  Lu- 
therans, antl  9,000  Rtifovuied. 

Saxe-Mtinin^eii.—  \Qt%\  population.  178,065; 
Prstestants  175,083  ;  all  Lutherans,  with  the  ex- 
ceptiou  of  aliout  40(1  Re-formed. 

Saxe.- AiUnbiiTg — Total  population.  141,839; 
Lutherans  141, •212,  Reformed  79,  United  Evan- 
gelical 218. 

Saxe-Voliurg  Gotha — Total  population,  164, > 
527;  Lutherans  about  145,000.  3,  00  Reformed. 

Schnimiiurii-Lipp — Total  pupulation,  31,3b'2; 
Lutherans  20,000.  Reformed  5,000. 

Sclnuarzhurg-Rud'ilstiidt — Total  population, 
73,752  ;  Lutherans  73,457;  Reformed  28. 

Hckwarzhiirg-^oiidershausen Total  popula- 
tion, 66,189  ;  Protestants  65,914  ;  nearly  all  Lu- 
therans. 

Wa  deck-(\n  1867  united  for  a  term  of  10  years, 
with  Prussia)  total  population,  59. 143  ;  Evangel- 
ical 57,036;  nearly  all  Lutherans  before  the 
uuinn. 

WarUmbe.rg Total     population,     1,748,328; 

Protestants  1.V00.363,  almo~tall  Lutherans. 

2. — The  Lutheran  Church  is  the  State 
Church  in  all  the  Scandinavian  Siates — Swe- 
den, Norway,  and  Denmark.  In  Sweden,  the 
Church  has  1  Archbishop,  II  Bishops,  3,200  pas 
tors.  The  population,  which,  in  1865,  amounted 
to  4,114,141.  was  all  Lutheran,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  about  10,06U.  iN'orway  has  5  Bishops, 
336  pastors;  population,  in  1865.  1,701,478: 
with  a  still  smaller  number  of  non-Lutherans 
than  Sweden.  Denmarx  has  10  Bishops,  69 
:Rrovost-!,  1,100  parishes,  and  1.2IJ0  pastors  ;  the 
population  (l,6!i8,095,  and  in  the  dependencies 
124,020)  are  Lutherans,  with  the  exception  of 
12,907  members  of  other  creeds. 

3. — Austria  has  1,218,750  Lutherans. 
4. — France,  has  44  consistories,  232  parishes, 
199  annexes,  392  temples,  658  schools,  263  offi- 
cial pastors,  40  vicars,  and  in  Algeria  the 
Reformed  and  Lutheran  (mixed)  consistory  of 
Algiers  has  12  jiarishes,  59  annexes,  71  places 
of  worship,  12  achools,  16  official  pastors.  The 
Lutheran  population  is  about  500,000,  mostly  in 
the  Alsace. 

5.  Riissia.-The  Lutheran  Church  is  the  pre- 
dominant church  in  the  Baltic  provinces  and  in 
Finland,  It  has,  in  liussia  Prujier,  8  consisto- 
ries, 431  churches,  566  ministers.  The  Luther- 
an population  of  Poland  is  382,000,  and  of  Fin- 
land 1,787,000. 

6. — In  Holland  there  are  two  organizations 
ef  Lutherans  ;  the  one,  the  ''Evangelical  Lu- 
theran," is  supposed  to  be  under  the  influence 
of  the  Liberal  (Rationalistic)  party,  and  has 
a  populaiion  of  about  66,000  souls  ;  the  other, 
the  •'  Reformed  Lutheran, "  adheres  to  the  svm» 
bolical  books,  ami  numbers  about  10.000  ■^ouls. 

7. — In  tiie  Other  Countries  of  Europe  there 
are  but  few  Lutherans. 

3.  Asia,  Africa,  and  Australia. 

The  L'ltlierans  sustain  missions  in  India 
China,  and  several  parts  of  Africa,  for  which 
we  refer  to  the  table  of  the  Foreign  Mission  So- 
cieties. 

There  are  about  10.000  Lutherans  and  Ger- 
man Protest-u  t3  in  Victoria,  and  a  number  in  ; 
the  other  Australian  Colonies. 


Reformed  Churches.  i 

I.— The  statisUcs  of  the  (Dutch)  Ri-formetl 
Cicifc/i  and  ihe  Gi-rnian  R'/ormed  Church  of  the 
Unite    iStafes  have  been  given  before. 

2.— Herman 0.  The  R'lform/d  Ciiurc/ies  nf  fSer- 
maiiy  have  mostly  been  absorbed  by  the  Unitetl 
Evangelic:il  Church.  For  their  sijitistios  as  far 
as  they  can  be  ascertained  see  Lutheran  Church. 

3.  —  France.  The  Rf>rmed  Church  nf  France 
had  in  1860.  105  consistories,  about  1045  congre- 
salions,  b26  church-buildings,  11.39  schoolj  ;  a 
theological  faculty  at  .Vlmitaubiin.  A  large  num- 
ber of  the  iniuisterd  are  "Liberals"  (Rationalists) 
in  theology. 

i.— Holland.  The  Reformed  State  Church  of 
Hidland  had  in  1860.  '1,800  000  members,  1272 
con)»i  e^'ations.  151 1  clertrymen.thenverwlielming 
majority  of  whom  are  "Liberals"  ("Ratioiialisis"). 
The  number  of  classes  43,  foriuiug  10  provincial 
synods.  The  General  Synod  meets  annually. 
There  are  theolov'ical  schools  at  Leyden,  Utrecht, 
Grouiugen,  beside  the  Atheueumsat  Deveuter 
and  Auiiterdam. 

The  Free  Re(i>rm.ed  Chnrch  has  28  classes,  from 
50  to  70,000  inemljers,  and  a  theological  school 
at  Kampen. 

b.— I'tUium.  Before  the  union  of  Belgium 
with  Holland,  Belgium  had  only  4  Reformed  Con- 
siegations.  The  number  incieased  during  the 
Dutch  rule.  In  lb38,  all  the  Protestant  Congre- 
gations which  receive  support  from  the  state, 
formed  the  ■•Protestiint  Union",  which  united 
under  one  Directory  several  evangelical  denom- 
inations. The  majority  of  the  Congregations  ara 
Reformed    Total  number  in  1859,  16. 

6. — HwUzerland  hud  in  1860,  a  Protestant 
population  of  1,417.754,  who  with  the  exceptions 
of  a  few  thousand  Lutherans,  and  Mennonites  and 
Independents,  are  members  of  the  Reformed 
Church.  In  some  cantons,  especially  in  Geneva 
and  Vaud  there  are  Free  Refurined  Churches  be- 
side the  National  Reformed  Churches. 

7. — Russia.  The  Ketormed  Church  has  a  popu- 
lation of  about  ■.;00,(I00  souls,  about  one-half  of 
whom  live  in  Lithuania,  where  they  are  divided 
into  4  districts. 

8. — Austria.  The  Reformed  Church  of  Austria 
or  as  it  is  there  called  the  CImrcli  of  the  Helvetic 
Confession  numbered  according  to  the  la-t 
o'ticial  census,  a  total  population  of  1,869,546  of 
wliom  1,453,009  were  in  Hungary  and  297,419  in 
Transylvania. 

9.— Africa.  The  Dutch  Reformed  Church  has 
a  consiilerable  numb>-r  of  congreg  iti.ms  in  the 
cimntries  of  South  Africa,  (Cape  Colonv,  Trans- 
vaal Ke|iublic,  Orange  Free  State  etc.)^The  Dutch 
R.?formed  Synod  of  the  Cape  Colony  has  for  years 
been  considerably  disturbed  by  the  Rationalistic 
Controversy. 

i 

United  Evangelical  Church.  " 

1. — Germany.  The  statistics  of  the  United 
Evangelical  Cnurch  have  been  given,  together 
with  those  of  the  Lutheran  Churches,  under  the 
head  of  Lutheran  Church. 

2.-UiiiUdSt  tes  .f  Anurica.  The  CAurcA  Union 
nf  the  West  (Kircnaiverein  d-s  Westens)  is  a 
branch  of  the  United  Evangelical  Church  of 
Germany.    It  has  about  4000  members. 

Anglican  Church. 

The  main  branches  of  this  church  are:  1.  The 
Protestant  Episuopal  Church  of  ihe  United  States. 


7« 


2.  Th«  Established  Church  of  England  and  Ire- 
land.    3.   I'he  c^cotcb  Episcopal  Cliurcb. 
1. — Prottstant   Epis-opul   Churr.k  of  tke     United 
atatet. — General  Statistics. 


Dioccsen. 


Clerpy.  Pariahes.  Commc't» 


44 

1.98E 

33 

133 

J  5  022 

27 

1,347 

12 

512 

27 

2,2.4 

e-i 

3,9rt0 

29 

1.832 

48 

1,460 

15 

35 

2  796 

48 

1.864 

19 

1,527 

136 

11,120 

fi! 

10,^  27 

73 

4,890 

26 

1,720 

44 

982 

29 

1,856 

23 

1.224 

110 

8.846 

328 

33.790 

t)8 

2.832 

101 

7,686 

179 

18,180 

45 

2,629 

35 

4,2^0 

72 

2.710 

24 

1,996 

29 

950 

37 

2,260 

172 

6,522 

161 

14,855 

44 

3.823 

Alnnanm ,.  34 

California  (1866) 30 

ConnecUcut 147 

Delaware 22 

Florida 10 

r.eor>;ia 31 

Illinois 90 

Indiana 31 

Iowa .  36 

Kansas  (1866) 12 

Kentncky 38 

l/ouisiana 42 

llaine 16 

ilaryland 157 

JU.'ssachusetls 120 

Michigan 63 

Minnesota 37 

Mississippi 28 

Missouri 28 

Xew  Ham))shire 26 

Kew-Jer.*ey 115 

Kew  York  (1866) 407 

Korth  Carolina 50 

Ohio 1(13 

Pennsylvania .219 

Pittsbnifrh 44 

Rhode  Island 39 

South  Carolina 62 

Tennessee 35 

Texas  (1666) 21 

Termont 24 

Vii^ima 112 

■Western  New  York 169 

"Wisconsin 63 


Total 2,600        2,370  178  102 

The  number  of  Baptisms  was  34,436,  and  of 
Gonfirmations,  19,616  Ihe  Increase  of  Com- 
municants in  23  dioceses  is  10,244.  There  are 
19.897  Sunday-school  teacher.s,  and  180.1.J2 
scholars.  The  total  of  contributions  for  mission- 
ary and  church  purposes  was  $3,859,296  02.  The 
Bii-sinnary  dioceses  are  in  Arkansas,  Oregon 
and  Washinpton,  Nebraska,  Da^'otah,  Colorado 
and  New  Mexico,  Nevada  and  Arizona.  Montana, 
Vtah  and  Idnho,  Western  Africa,  Cliina,  and 
Japan,  and  there  is  a  mission  at  Gieece.  Some 
f  ireign  congregations,  at  Paris,  Rome,  Port  au 
Prince.  Hayti,  and  St.  Croix,  in  the  West  Indies, 
*re  under  the  care  of  this  church. 

Cencrnl  histitutiont.—Gsnrral  Thenlosical 
Srmtnary,  A'ew  York.  Whole  number  of  stU'ients 
from  the  foundation,  908;  DimfSticanU  Vorni;n 
Missionary  Socuty.  In  the  Domestic  Depart- 
nient:  4;mi.ssionaiy  bisliops  and  213  missionaries. 
In  the  Koreicn  Department:  2  missionary  bishops 
18  missionaries,  and  34  assistants. 

Sund'iy  srhool  Union  and  Church  Book  Sociity. 
Jlistiricul  Siicieiy.  Socuty  for  the  Promotum 
of  Evangelical  Knowledge,  Hocitty  for  the  in- 
crease III  the  Ministry.  Amirican  Church 
Missio'inry  .'•nnuti/.  Christian  Unity  Society, 
Univertity  of  the  Houtli,  Htwanee,  Tmii, 
2.—  The  E.-tnbli  hod  Church  of  England  and  Ire- 
land ami  the  Hcutck  Kpiscnpal  C/iurch. 

S(alistics.  Bishops.  Clergv. 
F.nghuiil  (incl.  2  Archbishops).. :;8  about  17, (i()0 
I'eleanU            "        "                ..12  '•       2.2(U) 

Sootlaud 6        "         ]G2 


'  The  Coloni«3  (incl.  India,  JfeJan- 
esl«  and  iJandwicb  Islands.)  .    .51  "       2,009 

America 44         "       2,538 

Retired  Bishops .6 

Total 149  23  9110* 

In  England  there  are  5.764.513  Church-sittings; 
in  Scotland,  165  churches,  and  94  schools. 

ZlaBtern  Churches. 

\.—The  Creek  Church. 
ThefJreekChurch  cons'stsof  lOdiirerentgroapi 
which  in  point  of  administration  are  independent 
of  each  other,  namely  : 

1.— The  Patri'trchate  of  Jerusalem;  it  has 
13  Sees,  (Sletropolitical  and  I  .■Vrchiepiscopal) 
2.  Autioch,  6  Meiropoiitical  Sees.  3.  Alex- 
andria, 4  Metropolitical  Sees.  4,  Constantinople, 
135  Sees  (90  Metropolitical  and  4  Arch  epis- 
copal). 5.  Russia,  65  Sees  (5  .\I  troi>olitical.  25 
Archiepiicopal).  6.  Cyprus,  4  .Sees  (of  which  1 
is  Archiepiscopal),  7.  Austria,  11  Sees  (2 
M-Jtropjlitical).  8.  Mount  Sinai,  1  See.  9. 
Montenegro.  1  Metropolitical  See.  10.  Greece, 
24  Sees.  (The  Archbishop  of  Athens  is  ex  officio 
President  of  the  Holy  Synod. 

Tlie  l)ng  struggle  between  the  Government  of 
Roumania  (the  united  Danubian  i)rincii)alities 
of  Moldavia  and  Wallachia)  and  the  Greek  .Synod 
of  Constantinople,  terminated,  in  181)6.  in  the 
formal  recognition  of  the  entire  independence  of 
the  church  in  the  principalities,  by  the  Patiiarch 
of  Constantinople  and  his  Synod.  This  would 
tlierelore  be  an  11  th  Independent  Group  of  the 
Greek  Church.  There  are  4  Bislioi)s  iu  Walla- 
chia, and  3  in  Moldavia.  Tlie  people  ofServia 
and  those  of  Bulgavia  desire  for  their  bishops 
a  similiar  indepen<lence  of  Constantinople. 

Since  the  annexation  of  ihe  lonuin  Islands 
to  the  kingdom  of  Greece,  the  G  'vernment  of 
Greece  has  naturally  been  desirous  to  unite,  the  7 
bishops  of  the  islands  who  formerly  were  under 
the  jurisdiction  of  the  Patriaich  of  Constanti- 
nople, with  the  Holy  Synod  of  (Greece.  Tlie 
Church  of  the  Ionian  Islands  showed  itself  how- 
ever opposed  to  such  a  union. 

The  .statistics  of  the  Greek  Church,  reported  ia 
1867,  were  os  follows  : 
Russia,     (in    Europe   51,000,0!)00 ;  in 
Siberia   2,6;i(l,()00;  Caucasus,  i total 
pojiulatioa  4.257.000)  not   rc[)orted 

total  about 55,000,000 

Tarkiy.     (Incl.  of  the  Dependencies 

in  Europe  and  Egypt)  about 11,500,000 

Austria 2,9JI,0iO 

Greece.     (Incl.  of  Ionian  Islands). . .    1,22U,UU0 
United  States  of  im'rirn.       (Chieny 
in  the  territory  [urciiased  in  le67 

from  Russia) 50.000 

Prussia 1 ,5i)0 

China 200 


Total 69,692,700 

2. —  The  Armrninn  Church. 
The  total  number  of  Armenians  scattered  all 
over  the  world  ig  .nccording  to  Dr.  Pe!ermruin 
about  2.5(10,000.  Of  the.-e  about  100,000  are  con- 
nected with  Rome  United  y\riiie  ;aiisi,  15,(KJ0 
iireEvangelical  Armenians,  :ind  all  theotliers  be- 
long to  the  National  (or  Gregc  iaii)  Ariiieniaa 
Church.  Russia,  aoooniing  to  .sn  ofiieial  rejiort 
of  the  Ministry  of  Popular  Knlighteiiment,  had. 
in  1651  22,253  Catholiu  (united)  Armenians,  and 


77 


172.535,  "Gregorian"  [(non-united)  Armenians. 
The  Armenian  population  of  Turlcey  is  estimated 
at  2,000.000.  Persia  has  about  30,000  Armenians. 
The  highest  bishop  of  the  Armenian  Church  re- 
sides at  Etchmiatsin  (in  Asiatic  Russia).  The 
bishops  of  Sis  and  Aghthamar  have  also  the 
title  of  Catholicos. 

3.—  The  Nestoriann. 

They  have  a  patriarch  at  Diz  (Mosul),  in 
Turkey,  and  18  bishops.  In  1833,  their  number 
was  reported  as  10,054  families,  or  70,000  souls. 
Other  statements  give  higher  figures.  The  num- 
ber of  Nestorians  in  Persia  is  estimated  at  25.000. 

Since  1833  the  American  Missionaries  have 
labored  among  the  Nestorians,  and  formed  a 
cumber  of  Evangelical  Congregations.  Those 
Nestorians  who  have  united  with  Rome,  are 
generally  called  Chaldeans.  They  have  a  patri- 
arch, bearing  the  title  of  Patriarch   of    Babylon 


Asiatic  Turkey,  10;  Spanish  possessions  fn  As!»j 
1;  Portuguese  do.,  1;  Africa,  2.  Tiere  are  ia 
the   world  692  bishops. 

3. — Monastic  ouitrs. — The  following  are  the 
statistics  of  some  of  the  Monastic  orders:  Male: 
Franciscans.  50,000;  School  Brethren,  16,000; 
.Jesuits,  8000;  Congregations  for  nursing  the  siclc, 
6000  ;  Benedictines.  5000  ;  Dominicans,  4000; 
Carmelites.  4000.  Trai)pists,  4000;  l.azarists, 
2000:  Piarisis.  2000;  Redemptorists.  2000.  There 
are  aljout  190.000  merabe  s  in  Female  orders,  of 
wliom  162,000  are  in  Europe,  20,000  in  America, 
and  the  rest  in  the  otlier  parts  of  tlie  world. 
4.  —  Romati  Cittliolict  in  the  U^iiled  States.— 
There  are  7  provinces  in  the  United  States, 
comprising  44  dioceses  and  3  vicariates  apostolic, 
as  follows  :  Province  of  Baltimore  comprises  the 
Dioceses  of  Baltimore,  Charleston,  Erie,  Phila- 
delphia, Pittsburg,  Richmond,  Savannah,  and 
Wheeling,  with  the  Vicariate  Apostolic  of  East 
and  residing  at  Baigdad,  archbishops  at  Amadia  I  Florida,     and      extends     over    the    District    of 


and  Seleucia,  in  Asiatic  Turkey,  four  bishops  in 
Turkey  and  2  in  Persia. 

In  India,  the  Nestorians  are  commonly  known 
under  the  name  of  Christians  of  St  Thorn  is  of 
whom  there  are  about  70,001).  About  150.000  are 
united  with  the  Church  of  Rome. 

4.  —  The  Jacobites, 
They  have  a  patriarch,  with  the  title,  Patriarch 
of  Antioch  at  Caramit  (Diabekir).  a  maphrian 
(head  of  the  Eastern  Jacobites),  in  a  convent 
near  Mosul.  Besides,  there  are  said  to  be  21 
bishops  in  Asiatic  Turkey.  The  number  of 
families  in  Turkey  is  variously  estimated  from 
10,400  to  34,000.  It  is  said  that  there  are  about 
200,000  Jacobitesliving  in  East  India  (in  Malabar 
and  Travancore.  Of  late,  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  has  made  progress  among  the  Jacobites 
in  Syria. 

5. — The  Copts  and  Abyssinians. 

The  Copts  in  Egypt.— A  patriarch  of  Alexandria 
residing  at  Cairo,  and  the  head  of  the  entire 
church,  with  jurisdiction  also  extending  over 
Nubia  and  Abyssinia,  and  the  right  of  consecrat- 
ing the  Abuna  (patriarch)  of  the  latter  country; 
16  bishops,  churches  and  convents  146.  Popu- 
lation variously  estimated  from  150,000  to 
250,000,  of  whom  about  10.000  in  Cairo.  Of  the 
Copts  about  13,000  have  united  with  the  Roman 
Catliolic  Church  'United  Copts.)  The  Abyssinians 
number  about  3,000,000. 

Roman  Catholic  Church. 

1.— Pope  and  Cardinals. — The  Pope,  Pius  IS., 
formerly  Giovanni  Maria  di  Mastai  Ferretti,  was 
born  at  Sinigaglia  on  the  13  h  of  May  1792; 
elected  Pope  on  the  death  of  Gregory  XV'I,  in 
I«46,  and  crowned  on  the  21st  of  June  of  that 
year. 

There  are  59  Cardinals,  of  whom  6  are  Car- 
dinal Bishops,  44  Cardinal  Priests,  and  9  Car- 
dinal Deacons.  Thirty-nine  are  Italians  by  birth, 
8  French,  4  Spanish.  4  Germans,  1  Croatian,  1 
Belgian,  1  PorMiguese,  and  1  Irish. 

2. — Archbishops  and  Bishops. — The  number  of 
Archbishops  in  authority  was,  in  1667,  as  follows: 
In  the  United  States  7;  British  North  America,  S; 
Mexico,  West  Indies.  Central  and  South  America, 
Turkey,  4  ;  Ireland,  4  ;  Portugal,  2  :  Prussia, 
12;  Italy,  47;  Austria,  16;  France,  17  ;  Spain,  9; 
Bavaria,  Russia,  Greece,  2  each;  Belgium,  Hoi. 
land,  England,  Badeii,   Poland,  Malta,  leach - 


Columbia,  and  the  States  of  Maryland,  Pennsyl- 
vania. Delaware,  Virginia,  North  and  South 
Carolina,  Georgia,  and  the  eastern  section  of 
Florida.  Proviyire  of  Cinoi  nati  embraces  the 
dioceses  of  Cincinntiti,  Cleveland,  Covington, 
Detnjit,  Fort  Wa.ine,  Louisville.  JIm' qiiette  and 
Vincennes,  including  the  States  of  Ohio,  Indiana, 
Michigan,  and  Kentucky.  Prounce  uf  New 
Orleans,  La.,  comprises  the  dioceses  of  New 
Orleans,  Galveston.  Little  Rock,  Mobile,  Nat- 
chez, and  Natchitoches,  and  includes  the  States 
of  Louisiana.  Alabama,  .Misslssiiipi,  Texas,  and 
Arkansas  Province  of  New  York  includes  the 
dioceses  of  New  York,  Albany  .Boston,  Brooklyn, 
Buffalo,  Burlington,  Hartford,  Newark,  and 
Portland,  and  includes  New  England,  New 
York,  and  New  Jersey.  Frnvince  of  Oregon  City 
includes  the  dioceses  of  Oregon  City,  Nesqualy, 
Vancouver  Islan.l,  and  the  vicariate  of  British 
Columbia.  Province  of  St  Louis  comprises  the 
dioceses  of  St.  Louis,  Alton,  Chicago,  Dubuque, 
Milwaukee,  Nashville,  Santa  Fe,  St.  Paul,  the 
vicariates  apostolic  of  Kansa-i,  and  the  Indian 
Territory,  and  Nebraska,  and  embraces  Missouri, 
Tennessee,  Illinois,  Wisconsin,  Iowa.  Kansas, 
.S'ebraska,  Minnesota,  Daootah,  New  Mexico, 
Colorado,  Arizona,  and  the  Indian  Territory. 
Pr  viiiceof  Snn  Francisco  c  'mprises  the  dioceses 
of  San  Francisco,  that  of  Monterey  and  Los  An- 
gelos,  and  thevica'iate  a])nstolic  of  .Marysville, 
and  embraces  the  States  of  California  and  Ne- 
vada, and  all  the  territory  east  to  the  Ris 
Colorado. 

These  have  in  all  about  4000  churches,  chapels 
and  stations,  2700  jinests,  74jheological  S--minar- 
ics  and  colleges,  over  1400  academies  and  schools 
with  over  30,000  pupils,  and  upwards  of  1511  cui- 
ventsand  monasteries.  The  total  Catholic  popu- 
lation of  the  Uniteil  States  is  estimated  at  froto 
4.000,000  to  5,000.l;00. 

b.— Roman    Cathilis    in    Brit  sh   America. — &i^ 
There   aae   three   provinces   in  British  .iraenco  *'^' 
(Quebec,  Halifax,  and  (Jregon).  with    18  dioceses 
and   2   vicariates   apostolic,    with    nearly    1000 
priests,    and    a    catholic    population    of   ab^iut 
300,000. 

6. — Roman   Cathdirs   in.   Great  Britain. Th« 

Roman  Catholics  hsve  in  England,  1415  priests- 
1014  churches,  chapels  and  stations,  63  male 
communities,  204  convents, -and  llcolle;;es.  Iq 
Scotland  there  are  4  bl^hops,  193  prie>ta,  as 
many  churches,  16  convents,  and  2  seiiiiuaries. 
There  are  26  Rom^in  Cailiolio  peeig.  The  num- 
ber of  bisljops   in  England  is   16.    The  number 


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of  Roman  Catholics  in  Fnjlpnd  and  Scotland  is 
fioin  1  5(10,(100  to  2,000,000.  In  Irt-Uiod  are  4  pro- 
vitKe>,  31  arclibisliops  and  bishops,  1070 parishes, 
3120  priests  of  all  kinds,  fi7  male  and  189  female 
communities,  and  4,4il0.583. 

7._li\,r  statistics  of  lloman  Catholicism  in 
other  countries,  see  tables  of  ecclesiastical  statist- 
ics of  America,  Kurope,  Australasia,  and  creeds 
of  the  world. 

IJiiitarians. 

1. — America. 

The  Unitarian  Yearbook  for  1867  gives  the 
following  statistics  of  American  Unitarianism. 
Number  of  societies  about  294,  numbei  of  minis- 
ters about  359, 

Tkc  National  Conference  of  Unitarmn.  ani 
other  Christian  Churches,  (organized  1865)  is 
composed  of  such  delegates,  elected  once  in  two 
years  not  to  exceed  three  from  any  one  Church, 
including  the  minister,  who  shall  oflScially  be  one 
as  any  of  the  churches  may  accredit  to  it  by  a 
certificate  of  their  appointment.  The  "American 
Unitarian  Association"  ofBoston,  the  "Conference 
of  the  Western  Churches,"  and  other  Unitarian 
organizations,  are  also  entitled  to  representation 
in  it. 

They  support  a  mission  in  India,  under  the 
charge  of  Mr.  Dall,  who  superintends  five  schools 
— a  school  for  useful  arts,  a  vernacular  school, 
a  native  girl's  school,  the  Mary  Carpenter  or  rag- 
ged school,  and  another  separate  school— and  the 
Kev.  Mr.  Roberts,  who  is  laboring  at  Madras. 
There  are  also  schools  at  Salem  and  Secunder- 
abad,  receiving  assistance  from  the  Unitarian 
Asociation  and  from  Mr.  Dall. 

No  statistics  of  members  are  given.  They  havo 
been  variously  estimated  from  13,000  to  30,000. 

2. — Europe. 
In  England  there  are  about  300  Unitarian 
ministers  who  have  charge  of  Congregations 
In  Ireland  there  are  three  Presbyterian  bodies, 
which  in  point  of  doctrine  are  regarded  as  Unit- 
arians, namely :  the  Presbyterian  Synod  of 
Antrim,  the  Remonstrant  .Synod  of  UUter,  and 
the  Synod  of  Mescucter.  To(.ether  they  form  the 
"Non-Subcsribing  Presbyterian  Association  of 
Ireland,"  which  meets  annually.  In  the  English 
Colonies  the  Unitarians  have  chapels.  On  the 
Continent  of  Europe  the  Unitarians  exist  as  a 
separate  denomination  only  in  the  Austrian 
Province  of  Transylvania,  where  they  number 
a  population  of  over  50,000, 

Universalista. 

The  Vnivarsalist  Register    in  1868   gives    the 
following  statistics: 
Conventions.               Associa'nsSociel's.  Minis'rs 

Maine 6  88  39 

New  Hampshire 3  35  15 

Vermont  5  46  35 

Massachusetts 6  115  115 

Rhode  Islands 6  0  5 

Connecticut 3  14  14 

New  York 16  168  112 

New  Jersey 5  2 

Pennsylvania 6  18  2(. 

Ohio 13  95  52 

Michigan 4  24  It* 

Indiana 4  33  15 

Ulinois fl  36  37 


Wisconsin 3  23  18 

Minnesota 13  9 

Iowa 4  24  15 

In  most  sta'cs,  there  are  annual  "State  Con- 
ventions". A  "General  Convention  of  the  United 
Status"  meets  annually. 

There  are  also  a  few  societies  and  ministers  in 
the  o<her  States. 

There  are  11  LiteraryIn3titutions,colleges,  and 
Theological  Seminaries  under  the  care  of  denomi-  ' 
nation.     Periodicals  are  published,  in  ilaine,  I, 
Vermont.  1,  Massachusetts,  4,  .\ewYork,  2,  Ohio, 
1,  Illinois,  2,  Alabama,  1,  Missouri,  1. 

Nova  .Scotia,  2  ministers,  2  societies,  2  meeting 
houses  ;  New  Brunswick,  2  societies.  I  minister  ; 
Canada  iV-st,  (Ontario)  3  societies,  3  meeting 
houses,  2  ministers;  Canada  East,  2  ministers. 

The  Universalists,  in  1860,  had  only  three  Con- 
gregations in  England.  But  their  distinctive 
view  of  universal  salvation  has  a  number  ol 
adherents  among  the  members  of  the  Protestant 
Churches  of  Great  Britain,  Germany  and  othei 
countries. 

Christians,  (Christian  Connection.) 

The  statements  concerning  the  statistics  ol 
this  denomination  greatly  vary.  Belcher,  in  his 
work  on  The  Reiigious  Denominations  in  tnt 
United  States  (1854).  gives  to  them  607  organized 
churches,  489  ministers,  and  34,000  communic- 
ants. In  1839  they  claimed  1500  churches  and 
lOUO  ministers,  and  150,000  communicants.  lu 
the  lata  slave  states  they  number  about  100 
ministers,  14(1  Churches,  and  about  10  000  mem- 
bers. The  denomination  has  spread  in  England 
and  the  English  possessions.  Their  institutions 
of  learning  are  Christian  Union  College,  at 
Merom,  Ind.;  Graham  Collet'e,  in  NorthTJarolina; 
and  academies  at  Wolfborough,  N.  H,,  and 
Starkey,  N.  Y.  They  are  to  commence  a  Biblical 
School,  and  have  fixed  its  location  at  Newark, 
N.  Y.  More  than  sixty  Conferences  have  been 
organized  in  the  United  States  and  Canada, 
which  meet  annually.  The  General  Conference 
meets  every  fourth  year.  At  the  last,  held  in 
1866,  40  annual  Conferences  were  represented. 

Jews. 

The  statistics  of  Juduaism  in  1867,  according 
to  the  best  authorities  were  about  as  follows: 
Portugal,  3000;  Russia  (European),  1,300,000; 
France.  80,000  ;  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  36,000; 
Austria,  853.000;  Prussia,  250,000;  Other  German 
States,  192,176;  Netherlands,  70,000;  Belgium, 
l,33ti;  Denmark,  4,143;  Sweden  and  Norway, 
845;  Swi'zerland,  3.000;  Italy,  40,000  ;  Greece, 
8,000  ;  Turkey  (European),  70,000  ;  Syria  and 
A-iatic  Turkey,  52,000;  Morocco  and  North 
Africa,  610,000;  East  Asia,  500.800;  America, 
400.000.  The  total  number  of  Jews  is  from  6  to  7 
millions. 

Evangelical  Association. 

(The  Almanac  published  by  this  denomination 
did  not  reach  us  in  time,  to  put  the  latest  denom- 
inational statistics  in  its  proper  place  among  the 
■itatislics  of  American  Methoilism.) 

According  to  the  Almanac  of  the  Evangelical 
Association  for  1868",  there  are  13  Annual  Con- 


ferencps  11  ia  the  United  States,  1  in  Canada,  1 
in  tifrm.iny),  with  478  pre:tchei-9,  382  loc;il 
preachers  aud  60.241  commuulcants.  (an  increase, 
over  18fiG,  5  preacliers,  2r  local  preachers  and 
33U4  members  ) 

The  number  of  Sunday  schools  is  800.  of  schooj- 
ars,  40.b55,  and  of  officers  and  teaclie.rs,  82ii0. 
Tlie  contributions  for  the  Sabbath  school  and 
teachers  union  were  $1676  70,  and  the  total  re- 
ceipts for  mission  purposes  were  $42,104  16. 

Free-Will  Baptist. 

(The  "Free-Will  Baptist  Register  for  1866"  not 
having  reached  us  in  time,  we  have  to  give  the 
statistics  i>f  the  denomination  out  of  their  people 
place  under  the  head  of  Baptist.) 

This  denomination,  in  1867,29  yearly  meetings, 
148  quarterly  meetings,  1276  Churches.  1100  or- 
dained preachers  59,211  communicants.  The 
"Free-Will  Printing  Establishment  at  Dover,  N. 
H,.,  publishes  a  quarterly  Review,  1  weeltly 
paper,  and  a  Sunday-school  paper.  Another 
weekly  was  established  in  1867,  in  Chicago. 

The  educational  institutions  are  a  Biblical 
School  at  Nem  Hfoipton.  N.  H.,  3  colleges  and 
10  seminaries  and  academies.  The  '"Free-Will 
Baptist  Foreign  Mission  Society"  supports  a 
mission  at  Orissa,  in  India. 

The  Friends. 

1. — In  the  United  States,  the  Friends  number 
100,000.  belonging  to  8  yearly  meetings.  A  year- 
ly meetings  has  also  recsntly  been  organized  in 
Canada.  Two  weelily  papers  are  published  in 
Philadelphia. 

The  separate  organization  of  the  "Hicksite" 
(Libe.ral)  Friends  numbers  about  10  members  in 
6  yearly  meetings.  They  have  a  weekly  paper 
in  Philadelphia. 

pThe  most  important  of  the  yearly  meetings  of 
"Progressive  Friends"  is  that  at  Longwood, 
Chester  Co.,  Pennsylvania.  Thire  are  others, 
(or  were  some  years  ago)  at  Waterloo,  N.  Y., 
North  Collins,  N.  Y.,  Wabash,  Ind. 


2. — The  Friends  in  E:ig1aud  numbered  in  1867. 
13,786  members,  an  increase  of  11  over  the  pre- 
ceeUing  year. 

The  New  Jemsalem  Church. 

The  "General  Convention  of  the  Kew  Jeru- 
salem Church  in  the  Uni'ed  States"  is  composed 
of  9  Associations  (Illinois,  Maine,  and  New  Hamp- 
shire, Maryland,  Massachusetts,  Michigan  and 
Northern  Indiana,  New  York,  Oliio.  Pennsyl- 
vania) 9  isolated  Societies,  and  Members  by 
Eelection.  The  total  number  of  organized  So- 
cieties in  the  United  States,  is  67. 

In  England.  Scotland  and  Ireland,  56  Societies 
are  in  connection  with  the  ''General  Conference" 
and  10  Societies  not  in  full  connection. 

In  Germany,  there  are  12  places  where  there 
are  known  to  be  "receivers,"  in  Switzerland 
4  places,  in  France  4  places,  in  Italy  2  places,  in 
Australia  8  places. 

Other  Denominatious  in  the  United 

States. 

The  Shakers  have  IS  Societies  with  about  4500 
members. 

The  Adventists  have  about  30,000  members  and 
publish  papers  in  Boston,  New  York,  and  Battle 
Creek,  Mich. 

The  River  Brethren  have  an  Annual  Confer- 
ence in  Pennsylvania  and  another  in  Canada. 
Ministers  from  50  to  60. 

The  '■'Bible  Christians"  have  1  Congregation  in 
Philadelphia. 

The  Irvmgites  (Catholic  Apostolic  Church) 
have  Congregations  in  New  York,  PhiUdelphia, 
Potsdam,  N.  Y.,  and  perhaps  a  few  others.  They 
have  also  a  few  Congregations  in  England, 
Germany  and  other  countries. 

The  Mormons  number  about  60,000  in  the 
United  States;  20,000  in  Europe,  and  a  small 
number  in  several  other  countries. 

The  Oneida  Communists  had  in  December 
1667,  communities  at  Oneida  (210  members)  Wall- 
ingford  (45  members)  New  Haven,  New  Ycrk. 


80 


ALPHABETICAL   INDEX. 


Page 
;thyff'ininn  Chnrch   sec  Eastern  Churches. 

Africa,  Kcclcsiasticil  Statistics 6'^ 

,     Alliance,  K van, _'e1ical 15—16 

America,  Ecclesiastical  Statistics  of 61 

'     Anglican  Church. 

Pan- Anglican  Synod 17 

His.ory 42-44 

Statistics 75—76 

Anneuian  Church,  see  Eastern  Churches. 

Australasia,  Ecclesiastical  statistics 63 

Baptists. 

History 41-42 

Statistics 64—65 

Bible  Societies •  19—20 

Chaldeans,  see  Eastern  Churches. 

Christian  Church  in  1867 15 

Clir is tiaii  Connection 78 

Church   and  State-Progress    of  Religious 

Uberty 30—31 

Congregationalists. 

History 48—49 

Statistics 70 

Coptic  Church,  see  Eastera  Churches, 

Creeds  oUhe  World   61 

Disciples ^4 

Pntch  Ref.  Church,  see  Reformed  Churches. 
Eastern  Churches. 

History 46—17 

Statistics 76—77 

Fvangelical  Association 79 

Europe,  Eccl.  Statistics 62 

Free  Congregations 56 

Free  Religious  Association 56 

Friends    54.  79 

German  Reformed  Church,  see  Ref.  Churches. 
Greeic  Church,  see  Eastern  Churches. 
Jacohites,  see  Eastern  Churches. 

Jews ^ 54—56.  78 

Lutherans. 

The  Luthern  "Oeneral  Council" 60 

History 49-50 

Statistics 73—75 

Me Jsiah,  Church  of  the 56 

Methodists. 

Centenary  of  American  Methodism. ...        20 

History 51—53 

Statistics      65—09 

MUsioTis.  Foreign. 

List  of  the  P  otcstant  Mi^s'ry  Soc 34— 3.i 

Slatiatics  of  the  u).;re  ioiporla-it  Soc.  ..35—37 


Page 

Protestant  Mission  Houses 3s 

Moravians. 

History '. 50 

Stat  istics 89—70 

Mormons 79 

Nestorians,  see  Eastern  Cliurches. 

New  Jerusalem  Church 54 — 79 

Oneida  C'lmmunities 54 

Positivism 56 

Presbyterians. 

The    National    Presbyterian    Union 
Convention. 

History 47—49.  60 

Statistics 71—73 

Protestantism. 

Progress  of  Protestantism   in   Roman 

Catholic  Countries 57 — 59 

Reformed  Churches. 

History 49 

Statistics 70-71.75 

Religious  Societies  of  the  United  States  and 

Great  Britain -.^ ..-,        23 

Roman  Catholics. 

Roman  Catholic  Council  at  Rome 21 

History  . .-. 44 

Statistics 77—78 

Sabbath  Committee 27 

Sandemanians 54 

Secret  Societies 33 

Slavery  Question  and  Freedmen  31 — 33 

State  Christian  Conventions  in  the  United 

States    67 

gunday-schools 28 — 39 

Swedeiiborpians,  see  New  Jerusalem  Church. 

Temperance 25—27 

Theological  Publications 38—40 

Thomas  St.,  Christians  of,  see  E.istern  Churches. 

Tract  Societies 27—28 

Union  Movements 22-23 

Unitarians. 

History 53—54 

Statistics 78 

United  Brethren  in  Christ 69 

United  Evangelical  Church. 

History 50—51 

Statistics :..        75 

Universal  ists. 

History 53-54 

Statistics 78 

YouniT  Men's  Christian  Associations   ....        20 


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EXPOSITION  UNIVERSAL. 

Pabi«.  1867. 
The    Howe  Machine   Co..— Elias   Howe,   Jr.,— 699    Broadway,  Xew   York,   awarded,   OVER 
EIGUTV-TWO  COMl'KTirORS,  the 

Only  Grand  Cross  of  (lie  Ije^ion  of  53onor, 

AND  GOLD  MEDAL, 

given  to  American  Sewing  Machines,  as  per  Imperial   Decree,   published  in  the  "  llouileux  Uni- 
verael"  (Official  Jourual  of  tlje  French  Empire),  Tuesday,  2d  Julv,  1857, 


EYERT 


TH3E:     C^JEi.y^  j3k.T     X=*  DFl.  X  SQ  :E3  : 

THE  ONLY 

Grand  Cross  of  the  Les^ion  of  Honor  and  Gold  Medal, 

Awarded  to  AMKKICAN  SEWING  MACHINES  at  the  Paris  Exposition  of  1R67.  was  friven  to  us 
IS  per  Imperial  Decree,  publislipd  in  the  '•  Moniteur  Uuiversel"  (Official  Journal  of  the  French 
Empire.;     Tuesday,  July  2d,  1867. 

"  SewiBg 

MANUFACTURED  BY 

THE   HOWE   MACHINE  CO., 

ELIAS  HOWE,  Jr.,  Presidect, 

699  BROADWAY,  NEW  YORK. 

FOR  FAMILIES  AND  MANUFACTURERS. 


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They  are  celebrated  for  doing  the  best  work,  using  a  much  smaller  needle  for  the  same  thread 
than  any  other  machine.  ^^„^ 

Tlie  New  Improved  Family  Machine  is  without  a  rival,  and  cannot  be  surpassed, — a  Hem- 
mer,  Feller.  Braider.  Qailter  and  Guide  go  with  each  Family  Machine  free  of  charge. 

Kvf  1/  Machinn  is  as  near  per/eclinn  as  the  h'st  machinery  in  the  world  can  make  it. 

Tliey  are  adapted  to  all  kinds  of  Family  Sewing,  and  Manufacturing  of  every  description, 
making  a  beiuiiful  and  perfect  Stitch,  aliite  on  both  sides  of  the  articles  sewed,  and  will  neither 
riji  nor  ravel. 

The  luri.-ibein^  exar.tly  alike,  if  any  part  needs  to  be  revlaccd,  the  operator  can  replace  it 

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The  best  Machines  In  ihe  Wo.rld.  .  Send  for  Circular. 

THE  Rowi.;  MACHINE  CO..  Manu.acturers  and  Sole  Proprietors  of  THE  HOWE  SEWING 
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